University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” could be one of the largest on record,…
The events – one, a massive, long-lived drought believed to have dried large portions of Africa and Asia, and the other, a rapid cooling that accelerated the…
Intensive burning of fossil fuels and deforestation over the last two centuries have increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere by almost 40 percent. The oceans…
One long-standing climate puzzle relates to a sequence of events 33.5 million years ago in the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene. Profound changes were underway….
The record, trapped within the top 20 meters (65.6 feet) of a 400-meter (1,312-foot) sediment core drilled in 2005 in the North Atlantic Ocean by the…
“There would be a slight reduction in this problem, because land plants would be expected to be able to grow more vigorously in a high CO2, but cool world,”…