The clearest picture yet of the past 2,000 years of global temperatures has shown warming in the last 50-odd years is unprecedented in the last two millennia.
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A series of new studies sheds light on the population crash and extinction of the giant birds, lemurs and more that roamed the island until around A.D. 700-1000.
The Indian summer monsoon rainfall affects the lives of over a billion people. By looking at how prehistoric climate changes affected it, scientists can contribute to its future prediction.
Scientists have discovered new evidence of a drought that finished off the Akkadian Empire 4,000 years ago.
Drastic oxygen losses in the world’s oceans millions of years ago coincided with mass extinctions. Scientists see this as a warning about how climate change could affect oceans today.
The ocean floor holds unique information about Earth’s history. Scientific ocean drilling, which started 50 years ago, has yielded insights into climate change, geohazards and the key conditions for life.
Scientists asked young people to draw what they would like the natural world to look like when they’re older. Their imagination could help make conservationists more ambitious.
What can we expect from our future climate after looking at the ‘Hothouse Earths’ of the past?
This sudden, 150,000-year long temperature spike has many parallels with modern climate change.
Climate was the main factor that triggered the evolution of warm-bloodedness in mammals and the subsequent mammalian evolutionary success.
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Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northern Arizona University
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Associate Professor of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University
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Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, California State University, Dominguez Hills
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Senior Scientist in the field Marine Biogeochemistry and Paleoceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Ocean Biogeochemistry, The Open University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Analytical, Environmental and Geo- Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
