Swiss scientists are reconstructing the climate of the ancient world using small wooden artifacts hung on mummified remains.
Archaeology
Apr 4, 2023
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Tree rings are record books of annual growth, and the width of each ring is correlated to that year's environmental conditions. In a new study, Cameron Lee and Matthew Dannenberg use machine learning to demonstrate that ring ...
Ecology
Mar 29, 2023
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In summer 2021, a stunning heat wave swept western North America, from British Columbia to Washington, Oregon and beyond into other inland areas where the climate is generally mild. Temperature records were set by tens of ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2023
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Tree-ring analysis—so-called dendrochronological analysis—has been part of archaeology for many years and has made it possible for archaeologists to date old wooden objects with great precision. And in many cases, they ...
Archaeology
Mar 3, 2023
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Based on a new study, the carbon sequestration of suppressed spruces recovered during the following growth season after a selection harvesting. This is great news from the perspective of climate change. The prerequisites ...
Ecology
Mar 3, 2023
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The meat-eating dinosaurs known as theropods that roamed the ancient Earth ranged in size from the bus-sized T. rex to the smaller, dog-sized Velociraptor. Scientists puzzling over how such wildly different dinosaur sizes ...
Evolution
Feb 23, 2023
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Over the past century, the Earth's average temperature has swiftly increased by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The evidence is hard to dispute. It comes from thermometers and other sensors around the world.
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2023
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The 2015–2018 summer droughts have been exceptional in large parts of Western and Central Europe over the last 400 years, in terms of the magnitude of drought conditions. This indicates an influence of man-made global warming. ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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Aetosaurs had a small head and a crocodile-like body. The land dwellers were up to six meters long and widely distributed geographically. They died out about 204 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic.
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 13, 2023
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The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on various factors, from war with other territories to internal strife. Now, a Cornell University team has used tree ring and isotope records to pinpoint ...
Archaeology
Feb 8, 2023
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