Scientists believe the Horn of Africa reached a drought tipping point 11,700 years ago
New research suggests that the Horn of Africa is likely to become even drier, not wetter in the future as predicted by most climate models.
New research suggests that the Horn of Africa is likely to become even drier, not wetter in the future as predicted by most climate models.
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2023
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Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2023
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Scientists have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas. By integrating contemporary and ancient mitochondrial DNA, the team found evidence of at least two migrations: ...
Archaeology
May 9, 2023
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The overturning circulation of the Pacific Ocean "flipped" during the last ice age, altering the placement of ancient waters rich in carbon dioxide, according to Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine.
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2023
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New research published in Biology Letters on March 22 shows how tiny Antarctic life, which have lived on the continent since it was part of a forested Gondwana, have been able to survive as ice sheets have expanded and contracted ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2023
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The Storegga event is one of the largest submarine landslides known in the world and is located off the coast of Norway. It occurred about 8,150 years ago, after the end of the last ice age, and triggered a massive tsunami ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2023
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Researchers have pinpointed two intervals when ice and ocean conditions would have been favorable to support early human migration from Asia to North America late in the last ice age, a new paper published today in the Proceedings ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2023
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The movement of people across the Bering Sea from North Asia to North America is a well-known phenomenon in early human history. Nevertheless, the genetic makeup of the people who lived in North Asia during this time has ...
Archaeology
Jan 12, 2023
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Scientists from an international research project led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have applied a new method to reconstruct past climate. As they report in the current issue of Communications Earth & Environment, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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The wide expanse of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico holds the preserved footprints of life that roamed millennia ago. Giant sloths and mammoths left their mark, and alongside them, signs of our human ancestors. Research ...
Archaeology
Nov 15, 2022
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