A new 2,000-year-long reconstruction of sea surface temperatures (SST) from the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) suggests that temperatures in the region may have been as warm during the Medieval Warm Period as they are today.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009
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A new study carried out at the University of Cordoba and the School of Arabic Studies provides information on the arrival of the flower to Europe. Contrary to what was thought up until now, the first bulbs could have arrived ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2009
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Written testimonies from the medieval period show sexual assault being successfully reported to the authorities, despite legal, social and even family obstacles. This took place, we must remember, in a society which had next ...
Archaeology
Feb 14, 2024
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Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast on Aug. 30, 2023, bringing surging seas and winds over 100 mph. Meanwhile, another climate emergency has been unfolding along Florida's coast this summer: a marine heat ...
Ecology
Sep 6, 2023
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Researchers studying the teeth of an elderly woman who lived 2,000 years ago have charted her diet from infancy to just before her death.
Archaeology
Oct 26, 2022
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That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange—maize for wheat, tomatoes for ...
Archaeology
Jul 14, 2022
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Prof. Zhou Xin from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and collaborators have reconstructed a high-resolution model of monsoon precipitation in the Jiang-Huai region, ...
Environment
Aug 5, 2021
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What was the Medieval warm period? What caused it, and did carbon dioxide play a role?
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2021
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Cutting-edge scientific techniques used to study ancient artifacts found in Exeter have revealed more about the ancient international trading routes between the city and Europe.
Archaeology
Mar 16, 2021
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The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age was apparently accompanied by severe droughts between 1302 and 1307 in Europe; this preceded the wet and cold phase of the 1310s and the resulting great famine ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 5, 2021
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