A groundbreaking study published in Science, co-led by researchers from the University of Bristol and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), has uncovered new insights into the causes of the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth’s history: the Permian-Triassic extinction. This event, which took place around 252 million years ago, wiped out approximately 90% of marine […]
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Paleoclimatic Paradox of Exceptional Global Warming 400,000 Years Ago Resolved
In Europe, there were pre-Neanderthals, the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth had less ice than today, and sea levels were approximately 10 meters higher. We are in the Lower Paleolithic, 400,000 years ago, a period called MIS 11c, the warmest on our planet in the last few million years. According to a newly published study […]
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Simple Equations Shed Light on the Enigma of How Clouds Will Affect Future Climate Change
The effect of clouds has been the biggest uncertainty in predictions about global warming. In this new study, researchers from the University of Exeter and the Laboratory of Dynamical Meteorology in Paris created a simple model to see how changes in anvil clouds could impact warming. Anvil clouds are common storm clouds in the tropics […]
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Fish Get Smaller as Water Warms, but Scientists Don’t Know Why
A team of scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that a major theory explaining why fish are decreasing in size as waters warm may not be true. Known as the Gill Oxygen Limitation theory (GOL), it has been proposed as the universal mechanism that governs fish size. However, after extensive experiments, researchers […]
