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New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

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Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures

Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...

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NEEM ice core drilling in Greenland provides comprehensive new results

The drilling through the ice sheet at NEEM (77 N, 51V) was completed in August and now scientists can begin to review whether the drilling was a success. 14 nations participated in the scientific work at NEEM, ...

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Rising CO2 levels at end of Ice Age not tied to Pacific Ocean

At the end of the last Ice Age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose rapidly as the planet warmed; scientists have long hypothesized that the source was CO2 released from the deep ocean.

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

800,000 years of Greenland's abrupt climate variability

An international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephen Barker of Cardiff University, has produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years.

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created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Salt marsh sediments help gauge climate-change-induced sea level rise

A newly constructed, 2,000-year history of sea level elevations will help scientists refine the models used to predict climate-change-induced sea level rise, according to an international team of climate researchers. The ...

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created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Climate played big role in Vikings' disappearance from Greenland

The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written evidence of the colony's demise in the 14th and early 15th centuries, archaeological remains ...

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created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Antarctic sea temperatures cooled in Holocene but now rising: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of an ocean sediment core taken from deep water off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula is beginning to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of climate variability ...

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created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 20 | with audio podcast report

Ice cores yield rich history of climate change

On Friday, Jan. 28 in Antarctica, a research team investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history reached an important milestone completing the main ice core to a depth of 3,331 meters (10,928 ...

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created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Researchers find evidence of fire in Antarctic ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists studying Antarctic ice cores have found surprising evidence of a fluctuating pattern of carbon monoxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere caused by biomass burning in the Southern ...

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created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dramatic climate change is unpredictable

The fear that global temperature can change very quickly and cause dramatic climate changes that may have a disastrous impact on many countries and populations is great around the world. But what causes climate ...

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Large CO2 release speeds up ice age melting

Radiocarbon dating is used to determine the age of everything from ancient artifacts to prehistoric corals on the ocean bottom.

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Bedrock is a milestone in climate research

After years of concentrated effort, scientists from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project hit bedrock more than 8,300 feet below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet last week. The project ...

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created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Ice core drilling effort to help assess abrupt climate change risks

An international science team involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that is working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock July 27 after two summers of work, drilling down ...

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created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

US scientist in race to learn from Indonesia's dying glacier

The only glacier in the western Pacific could disappear in less than five years, taking with it vital clues about the earth's changing climate, a US scientist said Friday.

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created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2