Evidence in Earth’s natural archives, from tree rings to seafloor sediments, points to one trend. Some climate models suggest another.
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A look back at hurricane history suggests we may be significantly underestimating future risks.
We modelled the climate of the far future planet Earth in which the fantasy series is set.
What climate changes in the distant past can tell us about the near future.
Scientists have uncovered evidence of a global paleopocalyspe.
We found evidence of irreversible ecological breakdown millions of years ago – this time round, we should heed the warning signs.
Ice cores can preserve evidence of ‘black swan’ events like pandemics and droughts, but the glaciers from which they are collected are disappearing.
Scientists have reconstructed the monsoon over 145m years – and found it predates the Himalayas.
Thousands of years ago, carbon gases trapped on the seafloor escaped, causing drastic warming that helped end the last ice age. A scientist says climate change could cause this process to repeat.
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.
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.
The sun is more powerful today than when we last had similar levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
David Attenborough’s latest BBC documentary indulges wishful thinking over evidence.
Closing the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans strengthened the gulf stream and helped kick off ice ages.
As carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase, scientists are looking to the past.
But it’s been millions of years since carbon in the atmosphere last warmed the planet to this extent.
More evidence that planet Earth has gone through various frozen phases.
When the Spanish conquered South America in the 16th century they took over the Incas’ mines and soon began to pump clouds of lead dust over the Andes. The silver the conquistadors sent back home made…
Lakes of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, in northeast Canada, are showing evidence of abrupt change in one of the last Arctic regions of the world to have experienced global warming, according to Canadian research…
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Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol
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Research Associate in Climatology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, University of Southampton
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol
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Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northern Arizona University
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Research Scientist, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Research Scientist, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organic Geochemistry, University of Bristol
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
