New research shows that warm ocean currents triggered a rapid collapse of part of East Antarctica’s ice sheet 9,000 years ago, offering clues about future sea level rise.

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

Scientists tracking the health of the planet now say humanity has pushed Earth beyond seven of the nine environmental limits that kept conditions stable for thousands of years. The warning is not ...

ABSTRACT: This study explores the dynamism of pollen dispersal and sedimentation on the Cameroonian continental shelf, influenced by marine currents and fluvial inputs, in particular those of the ...

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a new study based on the sediment core from Lake Chaohu in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River presents the evolution histories of ...

1 School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, Nantong, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Tree-ring data are remarkable among paleoclimate proxies because they provide annually resolved records, capturing precise interannual variability often missed by other proxies. This study is ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed, vegetation ...

Numerous studies, spanning experimental, instrumental, historical, and modeled approaches, have delved into understanding climate change across the Holocene era and millennial-scale occurrences.

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...