Climate

Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Eastward shift of settlement areas at the end of the last ice age

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago.…

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Earth’s ‘dirty mirror’ effect is accelerating climate change

Earth is absorbing more sunlight and trapping more heat than it releases into space, causing our planet to warm up…

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Solar System’s Journey Through Orion Complex May Have Altered Earth’s Climate

The movement of the solar system through the Orion star-forming complex around 14 million years ago may have influenced Earth's…

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‘Out of science fiction’: First 3D observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere reveal a unique climate

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first…

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Discovery of water droplet freezing bridges atmospheric science, climate solutions

A groundbreaking University of Hawai'i at Manoa study on the freezing of water droplets suspended in air sheds light on…

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Life cycles of some insects adapt well to a changing climate: Others, not so much

As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to determine how the…

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Ocean Warming Rate Quadruples Over Four Decades, Accelerating Climate Change

The pace of ocean warming has intensified significantly over the past four decades, with recent data highlighting a quadrupling of…

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How animal poop helps ecosystems adapt to climate change

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama…

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Scientists discover unique microbes in Amazonian peatlands that could influence climate change

Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of…

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Technology for oxidizing atmospheric methane won’t help the climate

As the atmosphere continues to fill with greenhouse gases from human activities, many proposals have surfaced to "geoengineer" climate-saving solutions,…

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