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Guest “whatever” by David Middleton Texas cave sediment upends meteorite explanation for global cooling7 hours agoBaylor University Texas researchers from the University of Houston, Baylor University and Texas...

What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?

The greatest time of the Roman Empire coincided with the warmest period of the last 2,000 years in the Mediterranean, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Humans lived in what is now Mexico up to 33,000 years ago and may have settled the Americas by travelling along the Pacific coast, according to two studies by myself and colleagues published today.

OK, no need to torture me, I confess it—I’m a data junkie. And when I see a new (to me at least) high-resolution dataset, my knees get weak. Case in point? The temperature dataset of the Colle Gnifetti ice core. It...

Top predators dinosaurs like the Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus devouring dinosaur remains isn't all that surprising, but the smaller creatures feasting on dinosaur remains may just give us a more complete picture of what life...

PHYSICS The cold, famine and unrest in ancient Rome and Egypt after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE has long been shrouded in mystery. Now, an international team, including researchers from the University of...

Guest “implied face palm” by David Middleton From The Grauniad (where else?) “Beras” is not a typo… I’m a big fan of the late Yogi Berra, and I will try to fit a Yogi’ism in here...

Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a major study published June 30 in Nature Research's Scientific Data, "Holocene global...

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 25, 2020 by Roland Hirsch New technologies in mass spectrometry are advancing research in climate science This is the second of a two-part posting based on...

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 16, 2020 by curryja  by Roland Hirsch Mass spectrometry is essential for research in climate science. Understanding climate requires...

Counting tiny rings showed synchronous growth across an entire arctic archipelago NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSHARE PRINT E-MAIL The polar willow (Salix polaris) may not seem like much when you...

Imperial College London The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised the amount of climate-changing gases thrust into the upper atmosphere...

Science China PressShare Print E-Mail To assess the degree to which early stone tool using hominins modified their tool manufacturing behaviours in Eastern Asia, Shixia Yang and colleagues examined three well-known...

EU funding for the collection of a new tree ring network covering the Northern Hemisphere and the development of tree ring growth and density models Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Tree rings tell us a lot about what...