Sentences with phrase «get ancient climate»
As yet, no one has touched the waters of a subglacial lake with so much as a drill bit, but a Russian group that has been coring ice over Lake Vostok to get ancient climate records is coming close.
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But the trail grows cold in eastern Asia, where warmer climates have made it hard to get ancient DNA from fossils.
By learning more about Earth's ancient climate, scientists hope to get a glimpse of what's likely to occur in the future.
MEACHEM: We would really love to discover some more mammal fossils down there and what we're really hoping to get out of these mammal fossils is some good ancient DNA, that will tell us about the conditions that these animals lived in and how DNA or genes changed with climate.
Place this legacy within Israel's geographic location at the nexus of ancient European, Arabian, Middle Eastern, and north African civilizations, then add a coastal climate more temperate than inland Jerusalem, and you get a city that — much like Beirut, barely 100 miles to the north — quickly developed into a major hub of contemporary art.
Ancient trees reveal that the El Niño and La Niña events that wreak havoc on climate worldwide have been even more extreme than anyone knew, a revelation that suggests wilder swings in the future as the world gets warmer.