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New record from stalagmites shows climate history in Central Asia

The climate in Central Asia, currently a semiarid region, has varied over the past 500,000 years. An accurate record of the past climate can help scientists understand current climate and better predict how the climate may ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers Study Cave's 'Breathing' for Better Climate Clues

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas researcher studying the way caves "breathe" is providing new insights into the process by which scientists study paleoclimates.

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Geologists map prehistoric climate changes in Canada's Yukon Territory

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have joined an international group of scientists to study past climate changes in the Arctic. Comprising geologists from Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science, the ...

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carbon dioxide caused global warming at Ice Age's end, pioneering simulation shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate science has an equivalent to the "what came first—the chicken or the egg?" question: What came first, greenhouse gases or global warming? A multi-institutional team led by researchers ...

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created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Paleoclimate record points toward potential rapid climate changes

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Rising oceans - too late to turn the tide?

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further ...

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created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

How hot did Earth get in the past? Scientists uncover new information

The question seems simple enough: What happens to the Earth's temperature when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase? The answer is elusive. However, clues are hidden in the fossil record. A new study ...

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created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 52 | with audio podcast

Fossil sirenians give scientists new look at ancient climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- What tales they tell of their former lives, these old bones of sirenians, relatives of today's dugongs and manatees.

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created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Ancient catastrophic drought leads to question: How severe can climate change become?

How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we've seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science.

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created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

New drought record from long-lived Mexican trees may illuminate fates of past civilizations

A new, detailed record of rainfall fluctuations in ancient Mexico that spans more than twelve centuries promises to improve our understanding of the role drought played in the rise and fall of pre-Hispanic civilizations.

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created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Geobiologists uncover links between ancient climate change and mass extinction

About 450 million years ago, Earth suffered the second-largest mass extinction in its history—the Late Ordovician mass extinction, during which more than 75 percent of marine species died. Exactly what ...

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created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Earth's hot past could be prologue to future climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- The magnitude of climate change during Earth's deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse ...

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created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (23) | comments 30 | with audio podcast


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