Mining, Timber and Toxic Silt: How a German River Turned Human 1,000 Years Ago
Floodplain sediments of Germany's Kinzig River reveal that mining-driven deforestation and contamination shifted the river from natural to human control ...
Tag: Holocene
Vast Ancient Lake That Shaped Early Iranian Civilization Revealed by Texts and Satellites
A new interdisciplinary study reconstructs the Paleo Mega Lake of Rey, a vast ancient lake that covered central Iran for ...
Moroccan Lake Sediments Reveal Hidden Rhythms of 11,000 Years of Climate Change
A 19.63-meter sediment core from Morocco's Lake Sidi Ali reveals two distinct sets of millennial climate cycles that separately governed ...
Alpine peat bogs reveal 10,000 years of cold snaps and human fingerprints in the Swiss Alps
Cores from 10,000-year-old peatlands in Switzerland's Fimba Valley record Holocene cold events, including the 8.2 ka climate anomaly, alongside millennia ...
Ocean Current Shifts, Not CO2, Explain a 5,000-Year North Atlantic Cooling Puzzle
New alkenone and foraminifera records reveal that late Holocene cooling in the mid-latitude North Atlantic was zonally asymmetric and driven ...
Melting Swiss Glacier Reveals 10,000-Year-Old Larch That Grew Where Ice Now Reigns
A 10,000-year-old larch found with roots intact in front of the retreating Morteratschgletscher shows that forests once grew at 2150 ...
Dust Trapped in Antarctic Ice Reveals 7,000 Years of Strengthening Southern Winds
A new dust record from the South Pole Ice Core shows that the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds strengthened and shifted ...
Ancient Sediments Reveal 5,000-Year Link Between Atlantic Winds and Greenland’s Ice
A 5,000-year sediment record from southwestern Greenland shows that positive phases of the North Atlantic Oscillation have consistently brought cooler, ...
Bavarian River Floodplain Reveals Millennia of Human Transformation Beneath Its Sediments
Sediment cores and geophysical surveys in the Wiesent River valley of northern Bavaria reveal that medieval farming, deforestation, sheep grazing, ...
Fire in the Amazon Was Almost Never Natural: Humans Shaped the Rainforest for 10,000 Years
A reconstruction of 1,361 radiocarbon dates from 303 Amazonian sites shows that fire in the rainforest has been almost exclusively ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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