Paleoclimatology News

Posted February 2, 2009:

• Big Year For Darwin, But What Would He Make Of The Climate Change Ahead?

Posted February 1, 2009:

• Ancient Turtle Migrated From Asia To America Over Tropical Arctic

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Mountain Caribou's Ancient Ancestry Revealed

Posted January 26, 2009:

• 12,900 Years Ago: North American Comet Impact Theory Disproved

Posted January 23, 2009:

• Danube Delta Holds Answers To 'Noah's Flood' Debate

Posted January 13, 2009:

• Texas State Dinosaur Facing Name Change: Case Of Mistaken Dino-Identity

Posted January 7, 2009:

• Catastrophic Coincidence: Second Ever Example Of Contemporaneous Meteorite Impact And Flood Volcanism Discovered

Posted December 31, 2008:

• Bacteria In Ice May Record Climate Change

Posted December 29, 2008:

• Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows

Posted December 22, 2008:

• Pollen Grain Study Yields New Picture Of Ice Age

Posted December 18, 2008:

• New World Post-Pandemic Reforestation Helped Start Little Ice Age, Say Scientists

Posted December 17, 2008:

• Did Early Global Warming Divert A New Glacial Age?

Posted December 12, 2008:

• Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600

Posted December 5, 2008:

• Decline Of Roman And Byzantine Empires 1,400 Years Ago May Have Been Driven By Climate Change

Posted November 30, 2008:

• Carbon Dioxide Helped Ancient Earth Escape Deathly Deep Freeze

Posted November 24, 2008:

• Getting Warmer? Prehistoric Climate Can Help Forecast Future Changes

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Ice Age Beasts In Europe: Migration Of The Woolly Rhinoceros Earlier Than Assumed

Posted November 9, 2008:

• Sedimentary Records Link Himalayan Erosion Rates And Monsoon Intensity Through Time

Posted November 6, 2008:

• Ancient China: Lack Of Rainfall Could Have Contributed To Social Upheaval And Fall Of Dynasties

Posted October 30, 2008:

• 'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change

Posted October 7, 2008:

• Species Extinction By Asteroid A Rarity

Posted September 30, 2008:

• The Green Sahara, A Desert In Bloom

Posted September 26, 2008:

• The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave In The Rocks?

Posted September 11, 2008:

• Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy Of Climate Models

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age

Posted August 27, 2008:

• Why Is Greenland Covered In Ice? Changes In Carbon Dioxide Levels Explain Transition

Posted August 19, 2008:

• New Climate Record Shows Century-Long Droughts In Eastern North America

Posted August 11, 2008:

• Humans Implicated In Prehistoric Animal Extinctions With New Evidence

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent

Posted August 1, 2008:

• Tracking Down Abrupt Climate Changes: Rapid Natural Cooling Occurred 12,700 Years Ago

Posted July 31, 2008:

• Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago

Posted July 27, 2008:

• Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change

Posted July 23, 2008:

• Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt
• Past Climate Change: Continental Stretching Preceding Opening Of The Drake Passage

Posted July 22, 2008:

• Insect Biodiversity In Amazon May Be Result Of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers
• Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer

Posted July 2, 2008:

• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana

Posted June 15, 2008:

• Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests

Posted June 11, 2008:

• Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate

Posted May 23, 2008:

• New Research Forces U-Turn In Population Migration Theory

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Before Fossil Fuels, Earth's Minerals Kept Carbon Dioxide In Check

Posted April 28, 2008:

• 'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History
• Formation Of Ice Sheets 34 Million Years Ago Changed Ocean Acidity

Posted April 23, 2008:

• Sierra Nevada Rose To Current Height Earlier Than Thought, Say Geologists
• Volcanic Eruption Of 1600 Caused Global Disruption

Posted April 16, 2008:

• Current Spike In Atmospheric Methane Mirrors Early Climate Change Events
• World's Oldest Living Tree -- 9550 Years Old -- Discovered In Sweden

Posted April 9, 2008:

• When Genetics And Geology Meet In Patagonia

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