Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have found evidence of ancient climate change on Mars caused by regular variation in the planet's tilt, or ...
... sense danger. Some snakes curl up in order to spring into action and strike. Snakes may also coil to preserve body heat, and this warming behavior could affect our understanding of ancient climates.
... their estimates using DNA sequence information from each species and found that the patterns matched up, suggesting that the ancient climate changes left a genetic signature on the ants that is still ...
... is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future, according to research in the ...
... Instead, the trucks will deliver core-drilling equipment for a study of sediment and meteorite-impact rocks that should provide the longest time-continuous climate record ever collected in the Arctic.
... geosciences at Oregon State University, and international expert on using ice samples to explore ancient climate.
"The test results were unequivocal, but it was a lot of heavy lifting," Brook said. ...
... deep ocean bottom to reconstruct a record of ancient climate that dates back more than the last half- ... presented today at the Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change at Ohio State University's Byrd ...
One long-standing climate puzzle relates to the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene. Profound changes were underway. Globally, carbon dioxide levels were falling and the hothouse warmth of the dinosaur ...
By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, Binghamton University geologist Tim Lowenstein is helping climatologists and others better understand what we' ...
... over the last millions of years when reefs have existed south of Tasmania. They will also provide ancient climate data that contribute to models of regional and global climate change, based on ...
... 3,000 years of West African climate. In that period, droughts lasting 30 to 60 ... . Because long, high resolution records of ancient climate from the Atlantic are sparse, the existence of such a mode ...
If you live in California, Bakersfield is just a place where farming mega-corporations grow a lot of stuff. If you're remotely literate, you remember it as the 'Promised Land' the "Okies" left home ...
... period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past. The study, which was published online today, ... core samples worldwide, is probably the best ancient climate analogue for present-day Earth.
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... of focusing solely on ice-rafted debris, Stickley and her colleagues also garner information about ancient climate by analysing fossilised remains of tiny single-celled plants called diatoms in the ...
... Overpeck and his colleagues have been working in the Arctic for about 20 years to understand the region's ancient climate. Until recently, the group had been able to peer back in time only 400 years. ...
