Scientists pinpoint cause of past sea level rises
July 12th, 2012 - 12:59 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 12 (IANS) Scientists have identified what actually triggered the rapid rise of sea levels in the past, using climate and ice sheet models.The process, named 'saddle-collapse', was found ... Read more...
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World’s oldest clay pots found in China
June 30th, 2012 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 30 (IANS) Archaeologists have found pottery fragments in China that are 20,000 years old, making them the world's oldest known specimens, it was reported here.Earlier theories have held ... Read more...
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Evidence confirms CO2 spikes ended ice age
April 8th, 2012 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 8 (IANS) Harvard scientists are helping show the fullest picture of how global spikes in carbon dioxide (CO2) combined to finish off the last ice age 20,000 to ... Read more...
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CO2 hidden in ocean during Ice Age
March 30th, 2012 - 3:14 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, March 30 (IANS) Much of the CO2 was hidden in the ocean, which explains its low atmosphere concentration during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago, researchers say.Climate researchers ... Read more...
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Global warming less dire than estimates?
November 27th, 2011 - 2:22 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) The most draconian projections of rising temperatures due to the doubling of atmospheric carbon are unlikely, says a new study.The rate of global warming may be ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Scientists discover that some Ice age mariners were present in pre-historic Greece
August 30th, 2011 - 8:02 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Athens, Aug 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists have discovered that long before the end of the last ice age, travelers were moving on the Aegean Sea in hunt for a precious stone.The ... Read more...
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Climate change strips Arctic of much snow cover
May 5th, 2011 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 5 (IANS) Climate change is showing its ugly hand in the Arctic -- a much reduced snow cover, shorter winters and thawing tundra.And the changes are taking place ... Read more...
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Europe was populated by Kashmiris around 40,000 years ago: Study
April 3rd, 2011 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 3 (ANI): Researchers have found that Europe was populated by people from Kashmir around 40,000 years back and that they carry two to four percent Neanderthal genes - an ancient ... Read more...
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12000-yr-old cremated remains of child sheds new light on Ice-Age culture
February 25th, 2011 - 12:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): The remains of a three-yr-old child in a newly excavated archaeological site in Alaska may provide rare insights into the burial practices of Ice Age peoples.Archaeologists said the ... Read more...
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Global warming is a cyclic process: Guinness record holder
February 2nd, 2011 - 10:53 am ICT by IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
Chandigarh, Feb 2 (IANS) He has drilled the highest tubewell in the world and holds a Guinness record for the feat. He spends most of his time looking for precious ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Overuse of groundwater could ‘push arsenic deeper into water table’
January 18th, 2011 - 5:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 18 (ANI): New findings have shown that groundwater over-exploitation has drawn the water table down and, with it, arsenic.Soon, it will percolate down to deep aquifers in other Asian countries ... Read more...
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Ocean circulation changes ‘more dramatic than previously thought’
January 15th, 2011 - 3:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 15 (ANI): A new study from Cardiff University has revealed that ocean circulation changes this winter may have been more dramatic than previously thought.The study found that as the last ... Read more...
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Fossils show mysterious human species lived 30,000 years ago
December 23rd, 2010 - 4:18 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 23 (IANS) A mysterious new species of the human beings which lived alongside our ancestors 30,000 years ago has been discovered by the scientists.
The cavemen, called Denisovans, were identified ... Read more...
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Prehistoric humans ate each other: Study
December 14th, 2010 - 12:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 14 (ANI): New research on probable human teeth marks found on prehistoric human bones suggests that Neanderthals and Homo antecessor made meals of each other.The findings support prior theories that ... Read more...
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Ice-age reptile extinctions shed light on responses to climate change
December 10th, 2010 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that a wave of reptile extinctions on the Greek islands over the past 15,000 years may shed light on how ... Read more...
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How non-migrating grey whales survived the ice age
October 18th, 2010 - 1:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 18 (ANI): A new study attempts to shed light on how non-migrating grey whales survived the last ice age.Grey whales feed on the seafloor at depths of up to 50 ... Read more...
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Fossil discovery indicates retreating glaciers boosted biodiversity
October 5th, 2010 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 5 (ANI): Researchers at the Christian-Albrechts- Universitat zu Kiel (CAU) showed that biodiversity decreases towards the poles almost everywhere in the world, except along the South American Pacific coast.Investigating fossil ... Read more...
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Our ancestors were pioneers of colonisation
October 5th, 2010 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 5 (IANS) Archaeological investigation of campsites up to 50,000 years old in Papua New Guinea gives a glimpse of how highly adaptable humans at the forefront of global colonisation were. ... Read more...
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Monkeys Had HIV For Millennia
September 17th, 2010 - 7:49 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Sep17, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a recent discovery scientists have found that the precursor of HIV to have been present in Monkeys for 32000 years compared to previous assumptions of it ... Read more...
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NZ glaciers melted as European expanded at the end of ice age
September 9th, 2010 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 9 (ANI): Adding a new clue to how the last ice age ended, researchers have revealed that New Zealand glaciers melted at the same time when European glaciers briefly expanded.For ... Read more...
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Large CO2 release accelerates ice age melting
August 27th, 2010 - 5:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 27 (ANI): Using radiocarbon dating, researchers traced the pathway of carbon dioxide released from the deep ocean to the atmosphere at the end of the last ice age and found ... Read more...
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Dwindling pastures behind mammoth’s extinction
August 22nd, 2010 - 7:01 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 22 (IANS) Dwindling grasslands may have been the sole cause of the decline of woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave lions.
These findings by Durham University researchers challenge the theory that ... Read more...
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Scientists unearth Great Barrier Reef’s 169,000-year-old great grandmother
August 20th, 2010 - 4:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a more ancient reef than the Great Barrier Reef - just 600 metres away from it.This year, an international team extracted 34 sediment cores from ... Read more...
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Archaelogists discover Britain’s first Stone Age home
August 11th, 2010 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) It is cramped, draughty and unlikely to win any design awards. But the newly discovered circular structure is the country's oldest known home, built in 8,500 BC.
Built ... Read more...
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Britain’s earliest house discovered in North Yorkshire
August 11th, 2010 - 3:57 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 11 (ANI): University of Manchester and York researchers have uncovered the earliest surviving house of Britain at a site in North Yorkshire.The house dates to at least 8,500 BC - ... Read more...
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New theory to reveal why midcontinent faults generate earthquakes?
July 31st, 2010 - 6:19 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 31 (ANI): Researchers at Purdue University may finally unravel the mystery of why the New Madrid fault - lying in the middle of the North American continent and not along ... Read more...
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Ancient hunters may have begun global warming
July 1st, 2010 - 5:48 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 1 (IANS) Even before the dawn of agriculture, humans hunting the mammoths may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests.
Mammoths used to roam modern-day Russia and ... Read more...
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Global wind-shift caused Earth’s last ice age to end
June 26th, 2010 - 5:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 26 (ANI): A global shift in winds is what led to the end of Earth's last ice age- an event that ushered in a warmer climate and the birth of ... Read more...
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Scientists figure out what ended last ice age
June 26th, 2010 - 2:27 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 26 (IANS) The answer to what ended the last ice age, an event that ushered in a warmer climate and the birth of human civilisation, may be blowing in the ... Read more...
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Huge carbon ‘burp’ that helped end last ice age detected
June 6th, 2010 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 6 (ANI): Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels shot up by nearly 50 per cent at the end of the last ice age because ancient oceans belched stagnant CO2 into the skies, ... Read more...
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Meat-cutting tools prove Neanderthals inhabited Kent 100,000 years ago
June 2nd, 2010 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 2 (ANI): University of Southampton researchers have claimed that the Neanderthal man was living in Britain at the start of the last ice age.This means that they were residing in ... Read more...
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Huge carbon ‘burp’ that helped end last ice age detected
May 28th, 2010 - 10:53 am ICT by ANI
Washington, May 28 (ANI): The possible source of a huge carbon dioxide 'burp' that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age has been discovered by ... Read more...
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Annual Taurid meteors shower may have led to ice age mammals’ extinction
April 8th, 2010 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 8 (ANI): Thousands of Tunguska-sized cometary fragments struck the earth for over an hour 13,000 years ago, leading to a dramatic cooling of the planet and extinction of ice age ... Read more...
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Did large comet explosion trigger earth’s cooling?
April 2nd, 2010 - 4:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 2 (IANS) Some 13,000 years ago, thousands of Tunguska-sized cometary fragments struck the earth for over an hour, leading to a dramatic cooling of the planet, says a new study.
The ... Read more...
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Top 5 ways to mess with Earth’s day
March 4th, 2010 - 6:59 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 4 (ANI): An article in Discovery News has featured the top 5 ways by which Earth's day can get messed up.The first way for a day to get messed up ... Read more...
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