New research shows that prehistoric Ice-Age people hunted horse and camel 13,300 years ago in North America, much earlier than previously believed, according to a team of researchers led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
Bones from Irish elk (a skull is shown), which stood seven foot (two metres) tall, have been found in a number of locations across western Siberia and have now been re-analysed. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Sciencetech
By Joanne Nova Looks like Scientific American has gone a bit “cosmic”: The Little Ice Age was apparently caused by black death, small pox, and slavery. The theory goes that there was a small spikey dip in CO2 levels in 1610, which was man-made. So hold your breath, that means a whole new Read Full…
A new proposal pegs the start of the Anthropocene to the Little Ice Age and the Columbian Exchange — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Scientific American
A new proposal pegs the start of the Anthropocene to the Little Ice Age and the Columbian Exchange — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Scientific American Content: Global
By David Salisbury-VU Scientists are using climate from the last Ice Age when the American Southwest was much wetter—and the Northwest was much drier—to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future. Current odds are 50/50 that the Southwest is headed for a 30-year “mega drought,” researchers say. Meanwhile, the forecast for the Read…
Earth’s Little Ice Age may have been caused by a fall in solar activity – digging holes on Mars could help us find out Read Full Article Here For more great articles: New Scientist – Online news
Earth’s last ice age was so cold that even Antarctica’s emperor penguins had trouble with the chill, a new study finds. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: LiveScience.com
By U. Southampton Antarctica’s current climate is optimal for emperor penguins, but harsh conditions in the ancient past may have been too extreme for large populations to survive. A new study of how climate change has affected emperor penguins over the last 30,000 years shows only three populations may have survived the last ice Read…
By AFP They prefer freezing conditions but Antarctica’s emperor penguins may have struggled during the last Ice Age when temperatures cooled. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Discovery News