In the Atlantic Ocean, a giant 'conveyor belt' carries warm waters from the tropics into the North Atlantic, where they cool and sink and then return southwards in the deep ocean. This circulation pattern is an important ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2019
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As climate change melts Greenland's glaciers and deposits more river sediment on its shores, an international group of researchers has identified one unforeseen economic opportunity for the Arctic nation: exporting excess ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2019
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The Indus or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age society that developed mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia from 5300 to 3300 years ago, at about the same time as urban civilisations developed in Mesopotamia ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2017
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A small team of researchers from France and the U.K. has found evidence of lead pipe construction by the early Romans in soil samples taken from harbors near ancient Rome. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
Researchers have developed a new method to retrieve hominin DNA from cave sediments—even in the absence of skeletal remains.
Archaeology
Apr 27, 2017
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New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of the huge and astonishing creatures that once roamed Australia indicates the primary cause of their extinction around 45,000 years ago was likely a result of humans, not climate ...
Archaeology
Jan 20, 2017
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Rainfall patterns in the Sahara during the 6,000-year "Green Sahara" period have been pinpointed by analyzing marine sediments, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from Mexico, the U.S. and Germany has found that the demise of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican society centered around a city known as Cantona, was likely due to a combination ...
Imagine the world waking up one morning to discover that all compasses pointed south instead of north.
Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2014
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Rising global temperatures could increase the amount of carbon dioxide naturally released by the world's oceans, fuelling further climate change, a study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2014
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