Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...
To spread awareness that “climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a human story woven into the fabric of our civilization’s rise and fall,” Georgetown University historian Professor ...
Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data ...
Past and future trends in global mean temperature spanning the last 67 million years. Oxygen isotope values in deep-sea benthic foraminifera from sediment cores are a measure of global temperature and ...
Meet the Scientist Digitizing Millions of Fossilized Pollen Grains to Reveal Earth’s Climate History
Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes Erin Wunderlich Researcher Ingrid Romero holds a case full of pollen slides at the ...
This video examines a moment in Earth’s history when environmental change occurred far faster than expected. Geological and fossil records are compared to show how temperature, carbon levels, and life ...
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