New research highlights how learning from historical crises can inform our approach to climate change. By analyzing over 150 past events, researchers have found that…
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Photo of the remaining Denisova 11 (Denny) bone fragment from Denisova Cave in Russia, that comes from a daughter to a Neanderthal mother and a…
Globorataloides hexagonus shell recovered from a deep-sea sediment core in the tropical Pacific ocean. Credit: Catherine Davis Scientists have mapped out oceanic “dead zones” from…
New research has found that during times of rapid climate warming at the end of the last ice age, sediment cores from the North Pacific…
For over 400 years, the Himyarites held control over much of southern Arabia. Droughts in the sixth century helped Islam gain ground Extreme dryness aided the collapse…
The peat-covered uplands of the North of Ireland are today used mainly for commercial forestry, sheep-grazing and outdoor recreation, but were formerly wooded and farmed.…
Figure 1. Preferred habitats of Homo sapiens (purple shading, left), Homo heidelbergensis (red shading, middle), Homo neanderthalensis (blue shading, right) calculated from a new paleoclimate…
The Zumaia cliffs are characterized by an exceptional section of strata that reveals the geological history of the Earth in the period of 115-50 million…
Postdoctoral researcher Adriane Lam and Assistant Professor Molly Patterson making sense of new geochemical data obtained from planktic foraminifera. Credit: Binghamton University Ocean currents embody…
A relatively new way of analyzing tree rings has allowed researchers to reconstruct temperatures in Mongolia since 1269 C.E. The new reconstruction confirms that since…
Global warming begets more, extreme warming, a new MIT paleoclimate study finds. Credit: MIT News Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million…