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Prior to what has come to be known as the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT), ice ages tended to last on average 40,000 years. After the MPT, they spanned up to 100,000 years.
There was substantial environmental instability in the Pliocene and Pleistocene (Zachos et al ... Behrensmeyer, A.K. Climate change and human evolution. Science 311, 476-478 (2006).
Outside Pleistocene Park, the modern world has responded to the warming Arctic with complacency. We’ve spent decades ignoring the evidence of climate change and hoping that things won’t get ...
this research provides fresh insights into the ocean's role in climate during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, an enigmatic interval of change in climate cycles that began about 1 million years ago.
There are times when the global climate is warmer (interglacial phases ... The last major cold period was known as the Pleistocene, started 2.6 million years ago and ended just 10,000 years ...
deMenocal, P. B. Plio-Pleistocene African climate. Science 270, 53-59 (1995). deMenocal, P. B. African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene-Pleistocene. Earth and Planetary ...
The paper, by Henry Elderfield at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, “Evolution of Ocean Temperature and Ice Volume Through the Mid-Pleistocene Climate ...
At the end of the year, Yakutia's Pleistocene Park Project will be presented at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
As biotech companies race to resurrect extinct species, policymakers face urgent questions about ecological risks, disease ...