Ocean temperature reconstructed over the last 700,000 years
Credit: Daniel Baggenstos Bern's ice core researchers were already able to demonstrate in 2008 how the concentration of CO2 in ...
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Indigenous land-use reduced catastrophic wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau
Credit: S. Yoshi Maezumi If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you'd ...
Reducing ocean acidification by removing CO2: Two targets for cutting-edge research
Credit: Butenschön et al., 2021 Is it possible to simultaneously address the increase of the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
Megafauna extinction mystery – size isn’t everything
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto Ancient clues, in the shape of fossils and archaeological evidence of varying quality scattered across ...
Partial shade from solar panels increase abundance of flowers in late summer
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study by Oregon State University researchers found that shade provided by ...
Ancient ammonoids’ shell designs may have aided buoyancy control
Researchers use 3-D-printed models to explore fractal-like interior shell patternsCredit: David Peterman Ammonoids, ancestors of today's octopus, squid and cuttlefish, ...
Past Global Changes Horizons – a new paleoscience magazine for teenagers and young adults
Picture the past. Change the future.Credit: Illustration by Cirenia Arias Baldrich for Past Global Changes Horizons, vol. 1 Past Global ...
World’s first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters
HKU geographer leads world's first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters over the past 30 yearsCredit: ...
Poop core records 4,300 years of bat diet and environment
An inaccessible cave preserved clues to Jamaica's climate past in the sedimentary layers of bat guanoCredit: Sherri and Brock Fenton ...
UT begins offshore search for sand resources to protect Texas from coastal erosion
Credit: Texas General Land Office Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 ...
Policy decisions will affect coastal communities’ risk more than climate change
Credit: Steve Dundas, Oregon State CORVALLIS, Ore. - Coastal communities face increasing danger from rising water and storms, but the ...
Volcanic pollution return linked to jump in respiratory disease cases
Credit: Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya Respiratory disease increased markedly following one of Iceland's largest volcanic eruptions, a new study has found. ...
Abrupt ice age climate changes behaved like cascading dominoes
Credit: Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl. Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where ...
Mountain growth influences greenhouse effect
Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide -- in active mountain ranges, carbon-dioxide release strongly dominatesCredit: Kristen Cook ...
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