Science news articles about 'greenhouse conditions'

  • Arctic climate under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous

    ... Ocean during the Late Cretaceous – a period of greenhouse conditions - gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely ... of carbon dioxide (CO2) were high, driving greenhouse conditions. But scientists have disagreed about the climate at this time ...
  • Arctic climate variation under ancient greenhouse conditions

    ... about future climate trends and variability under greenhouse conditions," said Kemp, whose team's new ... should be subject to similar influences as it was under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous," said Kemp. This is important ...
  • World's largest snake discovered in fossilized rainforest

    ... temperature was 30-34 degrees Celsius. This estimate coincides with paleoclimatic models predicting greenhouse conditions. "This temperature estimate is much hotter ...
  • May 2009 Geology media highlights

    ... years ago) despite the prevalence of an extensive greenhouse condition. In a study by Ando et al., this greenhouse glaciation hypothesis is rigorously tested through detailed ...
  • University of Leicester geologists demonstrate extent of ancient ice age

    ... climate had long been considered characterised by essentially greenhouse conditions with elevated atmospheric CO2 and warm ... Palaeozoic Icehouse at least, processes eventually leading to oil formation may have been the solution to the greenhouse effect ...
  • Unlocking the secrets of the seafloor: The future of scientific ocean drilling

    ... change, and new approaches to capture and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth ... not seen for many million of years and on par with that of severe greenhouse conditions of the geological past. Only ocean drilling ...
  • Ancient hurricanes

    ... warming is how warmer temperatures caused by increased greenhouse gases could influence climate. Probing the past ... ago and which some consider to be a potential analog to modern greenhouse conditions. They found that hurricanes influenced by weakened atmospheric ...
  • First parasitic nematodes reported in biofuel crops

    ... damage thresholds of lesion, root-knot and needle nematodes to Miscanthus and switchgrass under greenhouse conditions. Future studies will include host ...
  • Demystifying yield fluctuations for greenhouse tomatoes

    ... that fluctuations in fruit number and yield under greenhouse conditions could be predicted on the basis of fluctuations in solar ... before anthesis was one of the important factors in prediction of tomato yield under warm greenhouse conditions ...
  • Remarkable fossil cave shows how ancient marsupials grew

    ... important because it documents a critical time in the evolution of Australia's flora and fauna when lush greenhouse conditions were giving way to a long, slow ...
  • Tropical forest diversity increased during ancient global warming event

    ... and the chocolate family, among others, were found for the first time. "It is remarkable that there is so much concern about the effects of greenhouse conditions on tropical forests," said Klaus Winter ...
  • Greenhouse ocean study offers warning for future

    ... 's oceans are in a much more delicate balance during greenhouse conditions than originally thought, and may respond in a more abrupt ... of hope thanks to a naturally occurring response to greenhouse conditions. "After a hypoxic phase, oxygen concentration ...
  • Like Earth's Atmosphere? Thank Carbon

    ... in magma as carbonate and degassed as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that helps Earth's atmosphere trap ... from underground to the atmosphere in other planets — and how that might influence greenhouse conditions — wasn't well understood ...

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