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Stalagmites in Northeast Brazilian Caves Confirm 9,000-Year Model of Diminishing Rainfall

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, researchers studying climate history in Brazil’s dry Nordeste region expected it to have wet and dry periods similar to the rest of South America. But over the past 9,000 years, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 25, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures

Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 17, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |