A new study, in which the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute (IACT) (CSIC-UGR) participated, has described for the first time a key stage in the beginning of the great glaciations and indicates that it can happen to our planet in the future.
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Ancient Kauri Trees Points to a Turning Point in Earth’s History 42,000 Years Ago
The temporary breakdown of Earth’s magnetic field 42,000 years ago sparked major climate shifts that led to global environmental change and mass extinctions, a new international study co-led by UNSW Sydney and the South Australian Museum…
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Organic Molecules Found in 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Rocks
A research team including the geobiologist Dr. Helge Missbach from the University of Cologne has detected organic molecules and gases trapped in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks.
A widely accepted hypothesis says that the earliest life forms used small…
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The Search For Second Earth
In the search for planets capable of sustaining life, an international research team with members from ETH has taken a significant step forward.
As the researchers reported recently in the journal Nature Communications, they found signs of a…
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CT Scans Reveals Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II was Executed by Multiple Attackers
Modern medical technology is helping scholars tell a more nuanced story about the fate of an ancient king whose violent death indirectly led to the reunification of Egypt in the 16th century BC.
Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II, the Brave, briefly ruled…
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Study Shows Tasmanian Aboriginals Witnessed the Laschamp Geomagnetic Excursion.
Drilling a 270,000-year old core from a Tasmanian lake has provided the first Australian record of a major global event where the Earth’s magnetic field ‘switched ‘- and the opportunity to establish a precedent for developing new…
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Solar System’s Most Distant Planetoid Confirmed
A team, including an astronomer from the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have confirmed a planetoid that is almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto, making it the most distant object ever observed in our solar…
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New Theory Explains Possible Origin of the Armageddon-Causing Object That Killed the Dinosaurs
It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s known, left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and runs 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the…
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How Rocks Rusted on Earth and Turned Red
How did rocks rust on Earth and turn red? A Rutgers-led study has shed new light on the important phenomenon and will help address questions about the Late Triassic climate more than 200 million years ago, when greenhouse gas levels were high…
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Geologists Produce New Timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic Climate Changes
The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of the Earth’s temperature during the early Paleozoic era, between 510 and 440 million years ago — a…
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