Study reveals Arabia's rainfall was five times more extreme 400 years ago | The last 2,000 years of the region were much wetter, with the climate once resembling a vegetated savannah roaming with lions, leopards, and wolves, unlike its present-day hyper-arid desert
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Study reveals Arabia's rainfall was five times more extreme 400 years ago
A new study reconstructing extreme rainfall in Arabia has uncovered that rainfall in the region was five times more extreme just 400 years ago, highlighting the need for preparedness amid growing urbanization.
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Massive burps of carbon dioxide 💨 led to anoxic ocean environments 🌊 in the deep past 🕰️.
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Massive Burps of Carbon Dioxide Led to Oxygen-less Ocean Environments in the Deep Past
New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that massive emissions, or burps, of carbon dioxide from natural earth systems led to significant decreases in ocean oxygen concentrations…
UConn Researchers Uncover a Major Shift in U.S. Landscape: ‘Wild’ Disturbances 🌿🌍 Are Overtaking Human-directed Changes 🏙️🔄
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UConn Researchers Uncover a Major Shift in U.S. Landscape: ‘Wild’ Disturbances Are Overtaking Human-directed Changes
A 40-year satellite study reveals that while disturbances from logging and construction are declining, events like mega-fires and extreme storms are becomin ...
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools 🪨🛠️ to weather a changing world 🌍. At a site in Kenya 🇰🇪, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. 🌪️
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2.75-million-year-old stone tools show hominin response to a hostile climate
Namorotukunan reveals an enduring tradition, not a moment: human ancestors made the same types of tools for hundreds of thousands of years.
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