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Paleontologists Reconstruct 56-Million-Year-Old Forests – and Find a Chilling Warning for Today

A study finds that during the PETM, Earth’s landscapes became widely browner amid elevated atmospheric CO2, global warming, and reduced rainfall caused by volcanically driven carbo...

Paleo Week: Northern Canada was Once a Subtropical Paradise

Fossils of Eocene palm trees near the Arctic Circle reveal a heated past

Scientists Uncover Signs of an Ancient Climate “Tipping Point”

Melting permafrost 304 million years ago may have released vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. A warming episode 304 million years ago may show how a relatively small clima...

55-Million-Year-Old Penguin Fossils Preserve Clues to a Warmer Antarctica

A team of paleontologists studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island found that ancient bird bones can preserve chemical evidence of past climate change. Ancient penguin bones fr...

Study: Ocean Heating Rates From Thousands Of Years Ago ‘Dwarf’ Modern Ocean Heating Rates

Deglaciation periods, such as the one occurring from about 14,000 to 6000 years ago, are estimated to have had ocean heat uptake rates of 12,000-20,000 ZJ (zettajoules). This range...

Scientists Reveal the Climate “Perfect Storm” Behind an Ancient Civilizational Collapse

Overlapping climate cycles may have intensified the droughts surrounding the Late Bronze Age collapse. Around 3,200 years ago, societies across the Eastern Mediterranean faced drou...

Global Temperature Trend Has Cooled Over The Past 6500 Years, Scientists Have Found

The sun is the main driver of the Earth’s climate, skeptical scientists assert  Brehm et al. (2021), Brehm et al. (2025) und Wang et al. (2026) Image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynam...

CLAIM: Climate change reached into the past and collapsed Bronze Age civilizations

From the “is there anything climate change can’t do when models are involved?” department. On the plus side, this study illustrates how natural climate cycles were involved. – Anth...

Paleo Week: Research Biases Affect the Bryophyte Fossil Record

Country level economic development and the number of grant-funded bryophyte researchers are major factors affecting fossil discovery

Climate change is unearthing archaeological discoveries, while also threatening them

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Jørgen Hollesen, a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, about how climate change is impacting the study of archaeology.

A 2-Billion-Year-Old Clue Challenges a Popular Earth Science Theory

A key geological clue to a global disruption in Earth’s ancient carbon cycle may have a more local origin. Between roughly 2.5 and 2 billion years ago, Earth underwent the greatest...

Wyoming fossils reveal ancient forests collapsed after extreme global warming

Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils – Here’s What They Found

How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marin...

Fixing one of climate’s worst plots

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler This is the third and last in our series discussing the use of unadjusted data and how it overstates the warmth of the 19...

Egypt’s Millennia-Old Rock Art At Risk From Climate Change – Polish Scientists Race To Document It

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Thousands of ancient rock carvings in Egypt’s Western Desert are gradually disappearing. Climate change and human activity are damaging some of Afri...

The core reaches across a mysterious period when Earth’s ice-age cycles changed from roughly…

The core reaches across a mysterious period when Earth’s ice-age cycles changed from roughly...

Throwback Sunday: “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period!”

Video of Dr David Deming's statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works on December 6, 2006. Dr Deming reveals that in 1995 a leading scientist emailed...