News tagged with northern china

Stanford climate scientists forecast permanently hotter summers

The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (14) | comments 16

Study characterizes 300-million-year-old tropical forest preserved in volcano ash

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. A new study by University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast