Paleoclimatology News

Posted January 23, 2008:

• Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-Killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash
• New Antarctic Ice Core To Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet

Posted January 10, 2008:

• Warming Climate Can Support Glacial Ice: It Did In Much Warmer Times

Posted December 21, 2007:

• Climatic Chain Reaction Caused Runaway Greenhouse Effect 55 Million Years Ago

Posted December 19, 2007:

• Geologists Say 'Wall Of Africa' Allowed Humanity To Emerge

Posted December 16, 2007:

• Ancient Flood Disrupted Ocean Circulation And Triggered Climate Cooling

Posted December 15, 2007:

• Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles In Sediments

Posted December 12, 2007:

• Ancient Fish Bones Reveal Impacts Of Global Warming Beneath The Sea

Posted December 10, 2007:

• Ice Ages And Rivers May Have Affected Gorilla Diversification

Posted November 29, 2007:

• Rodent Fossils Provide Data On Climate Six Million Years Ago

Posted November 18, 2007:

• 'Noah's Flood' Kick-Started European Farming?

Posted October 29, 2007:

• Origin Of 'Breathable' Atmosphere Half A Billion Years Ago Discovered

Posted October 28, 2007:

• Longest Living Animal? Clam -- 400 Years Old -- Found In Icelandic Waters

Posted October 25, 2007:

• Methane Bubbling From Arctic Lakes, Now And At End Of Last Ice Age

Posted October 24, 2007:

• New Way To Measure Ancient Ocean Temperatures Refined

Posted October 16, 2007:

• Ancient Fossil Evidence Supports Carbon Dioxide As Driver Of Global Warming

Posted October 11, 2007:

• Reading Past Climates From Ice Cores

Posted October 10, 2007:

• Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region

Posted October 8, 2007:

• Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven Human Evolution -- Out Of Africa

Posted September 27, 2007:

• Antarctic Plants And Animal Life Survived Ice Ages
• Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says

Posted September 26, 2007:

• Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change

Posted September 24, 2007:

• Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source Of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions

Posted September 17, 2007:

• Increased Bering Sea Ice Explains Prehistoric Fur Seal Rookeries

Posted September 12, 2007:

• New Evidence On The Role Of Climate In Neanderthal Extinction

Posted September 5, 2007:

• Refugia Of Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Could Be Basis For Its Regeneration

Posted August 31, 2007:

• Looking For Life In And Under Antarctic Ice

Posted August 28, 2007:

• Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution
• Migration of Early Humans From Africa Aided By Wet Weather

Posted August 14, 2007:

• Could Ocean Currents Change?

Posted August 1, 2007:

• Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago

Posted July 21, 2007:

• Penguin Remains Being Used To Measure Antarctic Ice Movement

Posted July 9, 2007:

• Fossilized Midges Provide Clues To Future Climate Change
• Climate Change Reduces Bat Population In Queensland, Australia

Posted July 5, 2007:

• Fossil DNA Proves Greenland Once Had Lush Forests; Ice Sheet Is Surprisingly Stable

Posted June 21, 2007:

• Ice Age Extinction Claimed Highly Carnivorous Alaskan Wolves

Posted June 9, 2007:

• 2008 World Monuments Watch List Of 100 Most Endangered Sites

Posted June 1, 2007:

• Climate Change Linked To Origins Of Agriculture In Mexico

Posted May 31, 2007:

• West African Ocean Sediment Core Links Monsoons To Global Climate Evolution

Posted May 23, 2007:

• El Nino And African Monsoon Have Strongly Influenced Intense Hurricane Frequency In The Past

Posted May 1, 2007:

• Climate Change Pushed Neanderthal Into Extinction In Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Researcher Says

Posted March 28, 2007:

• Greenhouse Gas Effect Consistent Over 420 Million Years

Posted March 23, 2007:

• New Evidence Puts 'Snowball Earth' Theory Out In The Cold
• Microfossils Unravel Climate History Of Tropical Africa

Posted March 14, 2007:

• Turkey's Lake Van Provides Precise Insights Into Eurasia's Climate History

Posted March 9, 2007:

• Climate Change: Could It Be Random?

Posted March 1, 2007:

• Improved Predictions Of Warming-Induced Extinctions Sought; Species Persist More Than Models Assume, Researchers Say

Posted February 22, 2007:

• An Ancient Greenhouse Window Into The Future

Posted February 20, 2007:

• From Icehouse To Hothouse: Melting Ice And Rising Carbon Dioxide Caused Climate Shift

Posted February 18, 2007:

• Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions

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