The rate at which carbon emissions warmed Earth's climate almost 56 million years ago resembles modern, human-caused global warming much more than previously believed, but involved two pulses of carbon to the atmosphere, ...
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Dec 15, 2014
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A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst that specializes in accounting for the carbon dioxide release by streams, rivers and lakes has recently demonstrated that the chemical process known as "carbonate ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2024
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A decline in the element molybdenum across the planet's oceans preceded a significant extinction event approximately 183 million years ago, new research from Florida State University shows.
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2022
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Beneath the cold, dark depths of the Arctic ocean sit vast reserves of methane. These stores rest in a delicate balance, stable as a solid called methane hydrates, at very specific pressures and temperatures. If that balance ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2021
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Methane released by thawing permafrost from some Arctic lakes could significantly accelerate climate change, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks-led study.
Environment
Aug 16, 2018
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Controlling greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades could substantially reduce the consequences of carbon releases from thawing permafrost during the next 300 years, according to a new paper published this week in ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2018
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It seems counterintuitive, but over the eons, glaciers may have made Earth warmer, according to a Rice University professor.
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2017
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Carbon dioxide emissions from dry and oxygen-rich environments are likely to play a much greater role in controlling future rates of climate change caused by permafrost thaw than rates of methane release from oxygen-poor ...
Environment
Jun 13, 2016
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The earliest instrumental records of Earth's climate, as measured by thermometers and other tools, start in the 1850s. To look further back in time, scientists investigate air bubbles trapped in ice cores, which expands the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2016
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Scientists have discovered a surprising similarity between rivers and humans: both release more carbon dioxide when they work hard.
Environment
Nov 18, 2015
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