Strong greenhouse gas emissions from streams and reservoirs have tripled, new NESSC research shows. The Earth’s warming climate is largely caused by the rise in greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and
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Hothouse climate due to faltering climate thermostat
The natural process removing CO2 from the earth's atmosphere can slow down or accelerate, new NESSC-research shows. This natural thermostat of earth’s climate severely faltered some forty million years
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Polar regions warm up stronger due to increasing CO2, even when they were ice-free, new NESSC-research shows. A new reconstruction of ocean temperatures during the Eocene, a geological time
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Extraordinary moments in climate history are interesting to explore; you could come across useful information for our current situation. NESSC researcher Cindy Schrader is investigating temperature peaks called hyperthermals dating 50 million
/ read moreLucas Lourens awarded EGU Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
The European Geosciences Union has honoured NESSC-colleague Prof. Lucas Lourens, head of the Stratigrafy and Paleontology group at Utrecht University, with the Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal. He received the award for his
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