Ice age to interglacial period: Greatest climate change
July 24th, 2012 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Copenhagen, July 24 (IANS) The greatest climate change ever recorded by the world over the last 100,000 years has been the transition from the ice age to the warm interglacial ... Read more...
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Sea levels may rise much higher, says fossil study
July 16th, 2012 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, July 16 (IANS) Sea levels may rise much higher than previously thought, suggests a new study on fossil corals, which shows how warmer climes in the past promoted dramatic ... Read more...
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Greenland ice melted more than Antartica’s
August 1st, 2011 - 2:12 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) The last prolonged warm spell caused the oceans to rise between 4 to 6.5 metres higher than their current levels.Where did all that extra water come ... Read more...
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Modern humans reached Arabia earlier than previously believed
January 28th, 2011 - 2:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 28 (ANI): An international team of researchers suggests that humans could have arrived on the Arabian Peninsula as early as 125,000 years ago - directly from Africa rather than via ... Read more...
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2 short warm periods in transition between last interglacial and glacial epochs
March 3rd, 2010 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 3 (ANI): In a new study, German and Russian climate researchers have found that there were at least two short warming periods in the transition between the last interglacial and ... Read more...
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Polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly, reveals ancient DNA
March 2nd, 2010 - 5:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 2 (ANI): New research indicates that a rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 has revealed that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly.The research, by researchers ... Read more...
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Drilled ice core in Greenland may contain climate history of past 38,000 years
August 25th, 2009 - 2:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 25 (ANI): A team of scientists has drilled an ice core of altogether 1757.87 m length on the Greenland inland ice within 110 days, which is expected to contain data ... Read more...
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Global warming may make sea level rise between 7- 82 cm
July 28th, 2009 - 1:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 28 (ANI): New predictions indicate that the amount of sea level rise by the end of this century will be between 7- 82 cm - depending on the amount of ... Read more...
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Global warming could raise sea level by five metres: Scientist
July 2nd, 2009 - 2:07 pm ICT by IANS
Wellington, July 2 (DPA) New evidence shows that if global warming melts the West Antarctic ice sheet, sea levels around the world could rise by up to five metres, a New Zealand ... Read more...
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Ancient mammals shifted diets as climate changed
June 3rd, 2009 - 1:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 3 (ANI): A new study has shown that mammals change their dietary niches based on climate-driven environmental changes, contradicting a common assumption that species maintain their niches despite global warming. ... Read more...
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Glaciers in Southern Hemisphere are growing out of step with those in North
May 2nd, 2009 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 2 (ANI): A new study has found that for the last 7,000 years, glaciers south of the equator in South America and New Zealand have often moved out of step ... Read more...
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Fossil corals show catastrophic sea-level rise about 121,000 years ago
April 16th, 2009 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 16 (ANI): A study, which is being touted as controversial, has said that fossil coral reefs at a Mexican theme park "confirm" that sea levels rose rapidly about 121,000 ... Read more...
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Earths sea level was more than 70 feet higher 400,000 years ago
February 10th, 2009 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence in Bermuda that Earths sea level was once more than 70 feet higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now, which may ... Read more...
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Scientists predict future impacts of climate change using oceanographic data
November 9th, 2008 - 12:06 pm ICT by ANI
!-- NO IMAGE --Washington, Nov 9 (ANI): Ecologists and oceanographers have predicted the future impacts of climate change by reconstructing the past behavior of Arctic climate and ocean circulation.
The research team ... Read more...
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Early humans may have used wet corridor through Libya for migration
October 14th, 2008 - 2:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 14 (ANI): A new research has claimed to have found a possible new route taken by early modern humans as they expanded out of Africa to colonize the rest ... Read more...
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End of last ice age saw dramatic see-saw climate changes
June 20th, 2008 - 11:58 am ICT by ANI
Washington, June 20 (ANI): An international science team has gathered information from a Greenland ice core which shows that the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 ... Read more...
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