Ancient Climate Reconstruction Links Past and Future
A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...
Initiative calls for global collaboration to reconstruct climate of past 100 million years
TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." ...
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Scientists are looking to the past to predict the climate of Earth’s future
Spanning 1.2 million years of climate history, this ancient ice core promises to unveil secrets about Earth’s past climate systems and help us understand the climate of Earth’s future.
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Climate and Environment
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.” By Catrin ...
Irish Examiner29d
Scientists probe secrets of Earth’s climate past
CO2 emissions in the past caused major global warming ... how CO2 plays a pivotal role in regulating climate and environmental conditions on Earth. Dr Hana Jurikova, the lead researcher from ...
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Centuries-Old Rare Manuscripts Are Revealing the Human Toll of Rapid Climate Change
Climatologists analyze various natural climate data repositories to understand Earth’s past. Glaciers, sediments, and pollen convene to form a kind of “nature’s archive” from which natural scientists ...
Scientists in Scotland develop new method to understand past and present wildfires
Scientists in Scotland have developed a new method to understand the heat and intensity of fires that burned out millions of ...
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Earth is still warming even when we’re freezing
This narrative benefits only the fossil fuel corporations that have sown doubt about their industry’s impact on the climate for decades. Complaining that predictions about a warming Earth are ...
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Scientists Used a 1.7-Mile-Long ‘Time Machine’ to See Into Earth’s Climate Past
Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s climate in the recent geologic past, largely because of the air bubbles trapped within them. An international team of ...
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What an ancient ice core from Antarctica can tell us about our climate’s past and future
scientists say they've tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth's climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it'll help them understand both how climate changed in the past and ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
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Initiative calls for global collaboration to reconstruct climate of past 100 million years
At present, many important climate archives are not sufficiently ... calibrate the climate records of the past 100 million years so precisely that the Earth's climate history can reliably help ...