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Howling winds take sea salt from the Southern Ocean and lay it down in Antarctica as snow, then ice. Hidden in these ice cores is a warning about Australian fire seasons.
Did the enormous West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse the last time global temperatures were 1.5°C above preindustrial levels? The answer lay in the DNA of an octopus.
As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?
Long before thermometers, nature left its own temperature records. A climate scientist explains how ongoing global warming compares with ancient temperatures.
Evidence in Earth’s natural archives, from tree rings to seafloor sediments, points to one trend. Some climate models suggest another.
Scientists used satellites to map tens of thousands of glacial landforms in Antarctica’s highest mountains.
As water dripped in a remote cave, it left behind evidence of every monsoon season for a millennium. Scientists say it holds a warning for a country about to become the most populous on Earth.
Yes, dinosaurs really did survive in snow – we simulated the Cretaceous climate to prove it.
Spoiler: lots more floods.
What climate changes in the distant past can tell us about the near future.
Australia’s alpine region warmed for about 600 years. What makes this climate change particularly interesting is that it bears striking similarity to today.
These giant predators are helping solve the mystery of Earth’s cooling shift some 50 million years ago.
Scientists studied charcoal layers in the sediment of lake beds across the Rockies to track fires over time. They found increasing fire activity as the climate warmed.
People were drawn to Ga-Mohana for many reasons. Surface water was likely among them.
Scientists have uncovered evidence of a global paleopocalyspe.
Extreme shrinkage of summer sea ice is just the latest evidence of rapid Arctic warming – and what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay there.
These findings are in stark contrast with the original worldview that suggested the entire globe was at a maximum glaciated state around 20 000 years ago.
Cold-water plankton is being replaced by warm-water species.
What caused the rise and then collapse 2,600 years ago of this vast empire centered on Mesopotamia? Clues from a cave in northern Iraq point to abrupt climate change.
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Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northern Arizona University
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, California State University, Dominguez Hills
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Associate Professor of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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