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Crucial new information about how the ice ages came about : PR & Podcast
An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about. Researchers from the […]
2014 Sino-UK Coevolution of Life and the Planet Summer School
Encouraged by the success of our Spring School in 2012 and 2013, this year we coorganise with Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology the Coevolution of Life and the Planet […]
Past and Future CO2 – Reconstructing atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
by Gavin Foster, Dana Royer and Dan Lunt Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere is a potent greenhouse gas, responsible for trapping longwave radiation and ensuring the habitability of […]
Co-evolution of Life and the Planet conference in UCL and Geological Society London
4th-6th November, 2014 Co-evolution of Life and the Planet conference in UCL and Geological Society London The Earth that sustains us today has arisen out of planetary scale co-evolution of […]
PR: What the geological evidence of the past tells us about modern sea-level rise
12 December 2013 Researchers from the University of Southampton and the Australian National University report that sea-level rise since the industrial revolution has been fast by natural standards and – […]
How will we face the danger of rising seas?
Tim Folger an American science and nature writer, contributing editor at the Discover Magazine and a science writer for other magazines, wrote an article about sea-levels rice in September 2013 […]
Scientists on the Road travel to Science Festivals
It was an interesting summer for Scientists on the Road. We participated in two big science events. At the Big Bang Near Me@Bournemouth and Poole and the Winchester Science Festival. […]
Bristol University: Oligocene discussion day
On the 16th of May, the University of Bristol held a half-day meeting devoted to the discussion of the Oligocene epoch (34 to 23 million years ago). The Oligocene is […]
Coccoliths thrive despite ocean acidification
21 May 2013, by Harriet Jarlett – Planet Earth Online Ocean acidification is damaging some marine species while others thrive, say scientists. An international team studied the effect of ocean […]
When was CO2 last at 400 ppm? And what was the climate like?
Paul N. Pearson, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University CF10 3AT, UK. Email: [email protected] Summary Atmospheric CO2 is approaching the 400 ppm mark for the first time in […]