Study shows historical volcanic eruptions triggered short-term global cooling
New international research led by the University of St Andrews reveals historical high latitude volcanic eruptions caused dramatic, but short-lived climate cooling.
New international research led by the University of St Andrews reveals historical high latitude volcanic eruptions caused dramatic, but short-lived climate cooling.
Earth Sciences
Nov 7, 2023
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The distribution of salt by ocean currents plays a crucial role in regulating the global climate. This is what researchers from Dalhousie University in Canada, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Alfred Wegener ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2023
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An earthquake slightly damaged houses and other buildings in southeastern Indonesia early Thursday, causing some panic but no apparent casualties.
Environment
Nov 2, 2023
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Humans have increased the concentration of potentially toxic mercury in the atmosphere sevenfold since the beginning of the modern era around 1500 C.E., according to new research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2023
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One of California's riskiest volcanoes has for decades been undergoing geological changes and seismic activity, which are sometimes a precursor to an eruption, but—thankfully—no supervolcanic eruptions are expected.
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2023
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Volcanic eruptions occurring in tropical regions (23°N/S of the equator) have been linked to abrupt disruption of global-scale climate cycles in the Indian Ocean over the last 1 million years in new research published in ...
A rescue mission is under way in the Caribbean to save one of the world's largest—and rarest—frogs from extinction.
Plants & Animals
Oct 16, 2023
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A climate researcher hit back against his dismissal from a German think-tank after refusing to take a flight back from a fact-finding mission in Papua New Guinea.
Other
Oct 13, 2023
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Climate scientists have detected a striking jump in global temperatures during 2023. September was 1.75°C above Earth's pre-industrial average temperature and a whole half-degree Celsius warmer than the previous hottest ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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Climate change that has occurred over the past 260 million years and brought about mass extinctions of life during these periods was due to massive volcanic eruptions and subsequent environmental crises, concludes a team ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2023
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