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Oxygen Analysis in Ancient Plankton Fossils Offers New Clues about Ice Ages

2014-04-17 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: A new method of establishing deep-sea and surface temperatures across the last 5 million years provides "crucial" information about how the ice ages came about, according to scientists. The study, published in the journal Nature, offers the first evidence that long-term trends in cooling and continental ice-volume cycles were not the same, while also providing new information on climate relationships that led to the development of ice ages over the last 2 million years. "In fact, for temperature...

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Bee Fossils Provide Rare Glimpse into Ice Age Environment

2014-04-11 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: A new analysis of rare leafcutter-bee fossils excavated from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California has provided valuable insight into the local environment during the last Ice Age. The La Brea Tar Pits, located in Los Angeles, contain the world's richest deposits of Ice Ace fossils, and are best known for their collection of saber-toothed cats and mammoths. In the new study, researchers used high-resolution micro-computed tomography (CT) scanners to analyze two fossils of leafcutter-bee...

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Fossil's "Neutral" Rating Reaffirmed at Zacks

2014-01-16 01:40:30| Jewelry - Topix.net

's stock had its "neutral" rating restated by Zacks in a research note issued on Wednesday, ARN reports.

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VIDEO: Fracking 'cleaner than other fossils fuels'

2013-10-08 16:50:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Fracking sites takes up a "miniscule" area compared with wind farms, said the chief executive of IGAS, a firm wanting to extract shale gas using the fracking technique.

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