Paleoclimatology News

Posted December 3, 2010:

• Carbon Monoxide Trapped in Ice Cores Reveals Unexpected Trends Regarding Burning Biomass

Posted December 1, 2010:

• Global Sea-Level Rise at the End of the Last Ice Age Interrupted by Rapid 'Jumps'

Posted November 29, 2010:

• Rainforest Collapse Drove Reptile Evolution

Posted November 23, 2010:

• Ancient Insects Preferred Warmer Climates

Posted November 16, 2010:

• Newly Discovered Drumlin Field Provides Answers About Glaciation and Climate

Posted November 11, 2010:

• Tropical Forest Diversity Increased During Ancient Global Warming Event

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Extreme Global Warming in the Ancient Past

Posted November 9, 2010:

• Scottish Horticulturalist Patrick Matthew Proposed More Accurate Theory of Gradual Evolution Before Charles Darwin Did, Geologist Argues

Posted October 12, 2010:

• Ancient Animal Urine Provides Insight Into Climate Change

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Volcanoes Wiped out Neanderthals, New Study Suggests

Posted September 23, 2010:

• Why Are There No Hyenas in Europe?

Posted September 16, 2010:

• 'Archeologists of the Air' Isolate Pristine Aerosol Particles in the Amazon

Posted September 14, 2010:

• Nanodiamonds Discovered in Greenland Ice Sheet, Contribute to Evidence for Cosmic Impact
• Frosty Times for Dinosaurs: Major Fall in Temperature 137 Million Years Ago During Cretaceous Greenhouse Period, Evidence Shows

Posted September 13, 2010:

• Sun and Volcanic Eruptions Pace North Atlantic Climate Swings

Posted September 8, 2010:

• New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended

Posted September 7, 2010:

• Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros and Reindeer Lived on Iberian Peninsula 150,000 Years Ago, Findings Show

Posted August 31, 2010:

• Extensive Relict Coral Reef Found in Southern Pacific

Posted August 25, 2010:

• A 'Great Fizz' of Carbon Dioxide Was Produced at the End of the Last Ice Age

Posted August 24, 2010:

• How Giant Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic 50 Million Years Ago
• Mosquitoes: Genetic Structure of First Animal to Show Evolutionary Response to Climate Change Determined
• Carnivore Species Shrank During Global Warming Event
• True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change

Posted August 23, 2010:

• Historic Buildings May Be Better Protected from Climate Change With New Forecast Method

Posted August 19, 2010:

• New Ways to Chart Our Maritime Past

Posted August 17, 2010:

• Dwindling Green Pastures, Not Hunting, May Have Killed Off the Mammoth

Posted August 9, 2010:

• An Ancient Earth Like Ours: Geologists Reconstruct Earth's Climate Belts Between 460 and 445 Million Years Ago

Posted July 8, 2010:

• North Pacific: Global Backup Generator for Past Climate Change

Posted June 30, 2010:

• Human-Made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters

Posted June 29, 2010:

• Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch

Posted June 24, 2010:

• Higher Wetland Methane Emissions Caused by Climate Warming 40,000 Years Ago

Posted June 17, 2010:

• Carbon Dioxide Is the Missing Link to Past Global Climate Changes

Posted June 16, 2010:

• Delineating Primary and Secondary Organic Carbon in Neoproterozoic Glacial Sediments

Posted June 9, 2010:

• A Cooler Pacific May Have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, North America

Posted June 8, 2010:

• Some Like It Hot: Site of Human Evolution Was Scorching

Posted June 3, 2010:

• Drilling Into the Unknown: First Exploration of a Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake Is a Major Step Closer

Posted June 1, 2010:

• Neanderthals Walked Into Frozen Britain 40,000 Years Earlier Than First Thought, Evidence Shows

Posted May 27, 2010:

• Scientists Detect Huge Carbon 'Burp' That Helped End Last Ice Age
• Farmers' Beliefs on a Higher Plain

Posted May 25, 2010:

• 20th Century One of Driest in Nine Centuries for Northwest Africa

Posted May 18, 2010:

• Climate Change Played Major Role in Mass Extinction of Mammals 50,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

Posted May 5, 2010:

• Climate Change and Mountain Building Led to Mammal Diversity Patterns

Posted May 1, 2010:

• Global Glaciation Snowballed Into Giant Change in Carbon Cycle

Posted April 26, 2010:

• Scientists Study 'Glaciovolcanoes,' Mountains of Fire and Ice, in Iceland, British Columbia, US

Posted April 15, 2010:

• Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans

Posted April 12, 2010:

• Deepest Core Drilled from Antarctic Peninsula; May Contain Glacial Stage Ice
• Ice Age Climate Change Did Not Pose Significant Challenges to First Americans, Study Suggests

Posted April 5, 2010:

• Scientists to Unearth Ice Age Secrets from Preserved Tree Rings

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Not So Fast! Andes Rise Was Gradual, Not Abrupt
• Was a Giant Comet Responsible for a North American Catastrophe in 11,000 BC?

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