Carbon Lurking in Deep Ocean Threw Ancient Climate Switch, Say Researchers
Monday, April 8, 2019 - 13:20
in Earth & Climate
A million years ago, a longtime pattern of alternating glaciations and warm periods dramatically changed, when ice ages suddenly became longer and more intense. Scientists have long suspected that this was connected to the slowdown of a key Atlantic Ocean current system that today once again is slowing. A new study of sediments from the Atlantic bottom directly […]