Short, rapid warming events, known as interstadials, coincided with major extinction events, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the United...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on why early dinosaurs were small, rare and species-poor in tropical...
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has confirmed a long-standing prediction that snowfall in Antarctica will increase significantly...
Droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains during the second half of the XXI century, could be drier and longer than drought conditions seen in...
According to a new study published in the journal Climatic Change, the Neo-Assyrian Empire was forced into terminal decline by the combination of two factors...
According to a new study led by Dr Christina Chronopoulou from the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, the open air plays of the ancient Greeks...
Researchers reporting in the journal Climate of the Past have identified regions of Antarctica they say could record the past 1.5 million years of Earth’s...
Radiocarbon dating of ancient moss clumps on Baffin Island in the Eastern Canadian Arctic suggests that local summer temperatures during the past 100 years...
A new study, reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explores behavior of Aboriginal Australians during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM for short).
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A giant mass of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America about 4 million years ago suggests current climate models...
A team of US researchers, including NASA scientists, has found that ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected.
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Italian scientists have proposed an explanation for the origin of mysterious ripples on stalactites.
Stalactites in the Choranche caves in the Vercors,...
A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Florida and University of Nebraska has discovered a correlation between environmental temperature...
