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Published Major North American oil source yields clues to one of earth's deadliest mass extinctions - Major North American Oil Source Yields Clues to One of Earth's Deadliest Mass Extinctions


Geologists studying the Bakken Shale Formation discovered a critical kill mechanism behind a series...
Published Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years - Discovery of World's Oldest DNA Breaks Record by One Million Years


Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified -- opening a 'game-changing' new chapter in the history...
Published Deep ocean currents around Antarctica headed for collapse, study finds - Deep Ocean Currents Around Antarctica Headed for Collapse, Study Finds


Antarctic circulation could slow by more than 40 per cent over the next three decades, with signific...
Published West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated far inland, re-advanced since last Ice Age - West Antarctic Ice Sheet: A Journey Through Time



The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting rapidly, raising concerns it could cross a tipping point of...
Published Past climate change to blame for Antarctica's giant underwater landslides - Past Climate Change to Blame for Antarctica's Giant Underwater Landslides



Scientists found weak, biologically-rich layers of sediments hundreds of meters beneath the seafloor...
Published Why there are no kangaroos in Bali (and no tigers in Australia)



Researchers are using a new model to clarify why millions of years ago more animal species from Asia...
Published Bursting air bubbles may play a key role in how glacier ice melts



New research has uncovered a possible clue as to why glaciers that terminate at the sea are retreati...
Published New study finds 50-year trend in hurricane escalation linked to climate change



New research by climate scientists indicates that there have been great changes to Atlantic hurrican...
Published Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures



A new study takes an important step toward reconstructing a global history of water over the past 2,...
Published How a climate model can illustrate and explain ice-age climate variability



During the last ice age, the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the climate in the North A...
Published Climate change played key role in dinosaur success story - Climate Change Played a Key Role in the Dinosaur Success Story


Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the ascendancy of dinosaurs through th...
Published Geoscientists map changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide over past 66 million years



An international consortium of geoscientists has reconstructed atmosphereric levels of carbon dioxid...
Published Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family



Early in the 1970s, paleontologists discovered strange fossilized fruits between hardened rock from...
Published 600 years of tree rings reveal climate risks in California



The San Joaquin Valley in California has experienced vast variability in climate extremes, with drou...
Published Investigating newly discovered hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,000 meters off Svalbard



Hydrothermal vents can be found around the world at the junctions of drifting tectonic plates. But t...
Published Ice cores provide first documentation of rapid Antarctic ice loss in the past



Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk sudden...
Published Biggest Holocene volcano eruption found by seabed survey



A detailed survey of the volcanic underwater deposits around the Kikai caldera in Japan clarified th...
Published Ice age climate analysis reduces worst-case warming expected from rising CO2



A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North Ame...
Published Climate change and mercury pollution stressed plants for millions of years



The link between massive flood basalt volcanism and the end-Triassic (201 million years ago) mass-ex...
Published Today's world: Fastest rate of carbon dioxide rise over the last 50,000 years



Today's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in th...