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Stalagmite reveals carbon footprint of early Native Americans

A new study led by Ohio University scientists suggests that early Native Americans left a bigger carbon footprint than previously thought, providing more evidence that humans impacted global climate long before ...

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created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?

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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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 5




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New record from stalagmites shows climate history in Central Asia

The climate in Central Asia, currently a semiarid region, has varied over the past 500,000 years. An accurate record of the past climate can help scientists understand current climate and better predict how the climate may ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher finds key to ancient weather patterns in Florida's caves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Darrel Tremaine has been known to go to extremes for his research, such as crawling on his hands and knees through a dark, muddy limestone cave in Northwest Florida to learn more about the ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ancient dry spells offer clues about the future of drought

As parts of Central America and the U.S. Southwest endure some of the worst droughts to hit those areas in decades, scientists have unearthed new evidence about ancient dry spells that suggest the future could ...

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created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Tourism does not harm all caves

Unlike the situation in other caves, damage caused by tourists at the Águila cave in Ávila, Spain is "imperceptible", despite it receiving tens of thousands of visitors each year. This is the main ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Elephant trunks' in space

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of a star-forming cloud of dust and gas, called Sh2-284, located in the constellation of Monoceros. Lining up along ...

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created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

World's oldest human remains claimed in Israel

Israeli archaeologists have discovered human remains dating from 400,000 years ago, challenging conventional wisdom that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, the leader of excavations in Israel said on Tuesday.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 28, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (57) | comments 282

Blue holes a mystery of the deep

On the long list of reasons why few scientists have dared plumb the mysteries of the Bahamas' famed blue holes, the toxic swamp gas actually rates pretty low.

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created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Researchers Determine Winter Moisture Linked to Rapid Glacial Climate Shifts

(PhysOrg.com) -- If past records regarding periods of warming and cooling climate are an accurate indication of weather patterns, then the southwestern United States is likely headed into a period of severe long-term drought ...

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created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Cave reveals Southwest's abrupt climate swings during Ice Age

Ice Age climate records from an Arizona stalagmite link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new research.

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created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 28 | with audio podcast


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