News tagged with climatic history
Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...
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Strong regional climatic fluctuations in the tropics
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Climatic fluctuations close to the equator show a different pattern to climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. In the tropics distinct 11500 year fluctuations between wet and dry periods can be clearly identified which ...
Southern Hemisphere Ants Richer and More Diversified
May 06, 2009 |
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There are fewer species of ants in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. This is the conclusion drawn by an international team of scientists that have studied 1,003 local ant assemblages ...
Museum specimens aid conservation effort in Madagascar
Apr 16, 2009 |
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There is a new tool for those developing conservation strategies for threatened species and landscapes: museum specimens. Richard Pearson and Christopher Raxworthy of the American Museum of Natural History ...
UK University to probe integrity of climate data
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.
Abrupt climate change more common than believed
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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It came on quickly and then lasted nearly two decades, eventually killing more than one million people and affecting 50 million more. All of this makes the Sahel drought, which first struck West Africa in the late 1960s, ...
Shells - a unique climate archive on the ocean floor
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Most people who find a seashell during their summer holiday on the coast will probably not be aware that they have found a unique record of the climate. For Professor Bernd Schöne, however, these hard calcium shells provide ...
End of an Era: New Ruling Decides the Boundaries of Earth's History
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of earth scientists has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years, reports the Journal of ...
Scientists predict climate change effects
Nov 01, 2005 |
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Harvard University researchers say climatic changes will significantly alter the health of humans and ecosystems worldwide. The study indicates the changing climate has the potential for abrupt and widespread economic con ...
Fossils found in Tibet revise history of elevation, climate
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Jun 11, 2008 |
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About 15,000 feet up on Tibet's desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team led by Florida State University geologist Yang Wang was surprised to find thick layers of ancient lake sediment ...
When did humans return after last Ice Age?
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford ...
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