Sentences with phrase «into ancient climates»

And earlier research into ancient climates has confirmed that greenhouse - driven warming could all but erase the ice, and change the world dramatically.

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Turning cities into sponges: how Chinese ancient wisdom is taking on climate change The Guardian
Together with the new study from Tabun, the data suggest that ancient humans did not master fire until hundreds of thousands of years after they expanded into cold climates.
Bowern hopes to also mine the cognate database for insights into pronouns, color terms, and changes of meaning that may give clues to ancient ways of life when climate conditions changed or trading intensified.
Ancient animals, however, might give us an insight into how modern animals might fare with our predicted climate change.
New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.
The lander was armed with a robot arm to burrow into the soil, a laser to analyse the atmosphere and oodles of other high - tech gadgets to analyse the past and present Martian climate and help unravel the planet's ancient history.
Beyond climate change, ancient DNA provides a window into the past to view evolution and ecology over hundreds of thousands of years.
«Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past: Scientists conduct ancient climate research on oldest cave glacier in the world.»
Evidence based on ancient DNA samples and historical climate patterns has suggested that the recurrent outbreaks of the second pandemic were caused by multiple reintroductions of Yersinia pestis into Europe, most likely from Asia.
Researchers reconstructing ancient climates delve into the mineral for a record of temperature and atmospheric composition, environmental conditions and the state of the ocean at the time those minerals formed.
She is excited about the potential that yoga therapy can bring into our current healthcare climate and bringing both the scientific and ancient teachings into the education of our future healers, teachers and practitioners.
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.
From the University of California — Berkeley Deep sediments are unparalleled record of biotic changes over past 200,000 + years University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals will adapt to climate change...
These days when one goes to hear a talk on ancient climates of North America, one is likely to learn that the speaker was forced into early retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey by budget cuts.
A given year's snowfall is compacted into ice during the ensuing years, trapping air bubbles, and so paleoclimate researchers have been able to glimpse ancient climates in some detail.
Scientists drilling deep into ancient rocks in the Arizona desert say they have documented a gradual shift in Earth's orbit that repeats regularly every 405,000 years, playing a role in natural climate swings.
While the use of computer climate models is the most familiar method of predicting future climate states, Lynas explains that ancient climates also give important insights into possible future change.
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