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June 3, 2025
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June 3, 2025 Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds ...
June 2, 2025 New research adds to our understanding of how rapidly rising sea levels due to climate change foreshadow the end of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The findings suggest the reef can withstand rising sea levels in isolation but is vulnerable to ...
May 29, 2025 Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world's glacier mass could disappear by the end of the century under ...
May 29, 2025 Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won't cancel out human-generated ...
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May 23, 2025 Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...
May 22, 2025 Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden much deeper in the ground than one would expect. More than 99.999% of ...
May 22, 2025 New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75 per ...
May 19, 2025 New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries -- even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5 ...
May 16, 2025 New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation ...
May 2, 2025 The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and ...
Apr. 28, 2025 Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group combined ...
Apr. 14, 2025 A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel ...
Apr. 9, 2025 In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans ...
Apr. 8, 2025 About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the ...
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Apr. 3, 2025 An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...
Apr. 2, 2025 Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate ...
Mar. 27, 2025 Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around ...
Mar. 24, 2025 A storm, even once it has passed, can leave traces in the ocean that last for thousands of years. These consist of sediment layers composed of coarse particles, which are different from the finer ...
Mar. 7, 2025 An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...
Mar. 6, 2025 Scientists have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 million years ago. Their findings reveal the long, drawn-out process of ecosystem recovery following one of the most ...
Feb. 25, 2025 New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. By chemically analyzing crystals in ...
Feb. 25, 2025 Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...
Feb. 24, 2025 It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...
Feb. 14, 2025 The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new ...
Feb. 12, 2025 Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...
Feb. 11, 2025 Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...
Feb. 10, 2025 Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until ...
Jan. 30, 2025 Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their ...
Jan. 30, 2025 Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...
Jan. 17, 2025 New research emphasizes that studying the impacts of past tropical storms can help communities better prepare for future storms. A key part of the study is analyzing the types and quantities of ...
Jan. 16, 2025 4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...
Jan. 16, 2025 Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...
Jan. 16, 2025 The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...
Jan. 16, 2025 A new study has revealed the alarming extent glaciers have shrunk over the past 40 years in a global warming hotspot -- and the biggest retreat has occurred in recent ...
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- Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve
- The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System
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- Sharks and Rays Benefit from Global Warming, but Not from CO2 in the Oceans
- Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change
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- Volcanic Eruption Caused Neolithic People to Sacrifice Unique 'sun Stones'
- Asteroid Impact Sulfur Release Less Lethal in Dinosaur Extinction
- Speleothem and Ice Cores: Natural Climate Archives Offer New Insights Into the Climate History of Central Europe
- Pioneering Research Exposes Huge Loss of Glaciers in One of the Fastest-Warming Places on Earth
- Early Humans Adapted to Harsh Conditions More Than a Million Years Ago
Monday, January 6, 2025
- Ice Patches on Beartooth Plateau Reveal How Ancient Landscape Differed from Today's
- Lead Pollution Likely Caused Widespread IQ Declines in Ancient Rome, New Study Finds
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- Researchers Identify a Mysterious Fossil Seed to Reveal New Chapters in Climate History of Los Angeles
- Chart of Life Extended by Nearly 1.5 Billion Years
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- New Ice Core Data Provides Insight Into Climate 'tipping Points' During the Last Ice Age
- Weather-Changing El Nino Oscillation Is at Least 250 Million Years Old
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- Explaining Dramatic Planet-Wide Changes After World's Last 'Snowball Earth' Event
- Sea Surface Temperature Record in the Southwestern Pacific: Coral Colony from Fiji Reveals Warmest Temperatures in Over 600 Years
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- Millions of Years for Plants to Recover from Global Warming
- Record-Breaking Recovery of Rocks That Originated in Earth's Mantle Could Reveal Secrets of Planet's History
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
- Carvings at Ancient Monument May Be World's Oldest Calendars
- Antarctic-Wide Survey of Plant Life to Aid Conservation Efforts
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- Ocean's Loss of Oxygen Caused Massive Jurassic Extinction: Could It Happen Again?
- Shocked Quartz Reveals Evidence of Historical Cosmic Airburst
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- The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms
- Ancient Ocean Slowdown Warns of Future Climate Chaos
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- Historic Iceberg Surges Offer Insights on Modern Climate Change
- Local Bright Spot Among Melting Glaciers: 2000 Km of Antarctic Ice-Covered Coastline Has Been Stable for 85 Years
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- Scientists Show Ancient Village Adapted to Drought, Rising Seas
- Climate Change and Mercury Pollution Stressed Plants for Millions of Years
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- Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2
- Marine Plankton Behavior Could Predict Future Marine Extinctions
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- New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change