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fromState of the Planet
1 day ago

Ancient Antarctic Dust Reveals Signs of a Diminished Ross Ice Shelf

Volcanic dust source shifts in Antarctic ice indicate major Ross Sea and West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat during the Last Interglacial, supporting 3–5 m sea-level rise risk.
fromNature
3 months ago

Deepest-ever rock core extracted from under Antarctic ice sheet

Preliminary dating, based on the presence of fossilized algae that only existed during specific geological periods, suggests that the core represents an archive of the past 23 million years. This includes periods when Earth's average surface temperature was hotter than today's - and higher than the temperature projected for 2100 under current global climate policies. The core was retrieved as part of the Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 °C (SWAIS2C) project.
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fromState of the Planet
3 months ago

Women in Science: Climate Scientist Gisela Winckler

Gisela Winckler transitioned from physics to environmental and marine science, researching past and future climate variability and the ocean’s role in the climate and carbon cycles.
Environment
fromNature
3 months ago

Tree rings and salt lakes give clues about ancient rainfall

Replace hazardous pesticides and apply diverse paleoclimate measurement methods to reconstruct past climate changes.
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fromNature
4 months ago

Ancient 'snowball' Earth had frigidly briny seas

Snowball Earth oceans were extremely cold (around −15 °C) and so highly saline that seawater remained liquid at subfreezing temperatures.
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fromFuturism
5 months ago

Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species

Prolonged extreme drought around 50,000 years ago dried Liang Bua's ecosystem, reducing water and prey, stressing Homo floresiensis and likely causing their disappearance.
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fromMail Online
6 months ago

British summers could last up to 8 MONTHS by 2100, scientists predict

British summers could extend to about eight months (≈242 days) by 2100 as Arctic warming reduces the north–south temperature gradient and slows the jet stream.
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fromState of the Planet
6 months ago

What Really Happened on Easter Island? Ancient Sediments Rewrite the "Ecocide" Story

A reconstructed 800-year rainfall record shows a severe, century-long drought began around 1550 on Rapa Nui and communities remained resilient despite climate stress.
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fromNature
7 months ago

Hippos still roamed Europe during the last ice age

Hippo populations in southwestern Germany persisted far longer than previously believed, surviving past 115,000 years ago.
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fromFuturism
8 months ago

Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him

A major paleoclimate reconstruction shows past rapid warming linked to mass extinctions, but a public figure misread its timeline and spread misleading claims.
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fromNature
9 months ago

Daily briefing: Primates might have evolved in the cold climate of North America

Common ancestors of modern primates likely thrived in cold North American winters rather than warm tropical forests.
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