Ancient viruses preserved in glacial ice hold valuable information about changes in Earth’s climate, a new study suggests.
Locked in a Glacier, Viruses Adapted to Survive Extreme Weather
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NSF Funds Research on the Effects of Evolution and Food Webs in Climate Change Response
Colorado State University is leading a new interdisciplinary research project into the ways predators and prey in sensitive ecosystems may react to climate change based on their physiology, genetics and relationships to each other.
Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea Raises Questions about Extraterrestrial Life
Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), million-year-old rocks cover the seafloor.
Study Finds Salamanders are Suprisingly Abundant in Northeastern Forest
Scientists knew that red-backed salamanders were abundant in eastern North America, but a recent study found their densities and biomass across the region were much higher than expected.
What Microscopic Fossilized Shells Tell Us About Ancient Climate Change
At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth experienced dramatic warming periods, both gradual periods stretching millions of years and sudden warming events known as hyperthermals.
As ‘Doomsday’ Glacier Melts, Can an Artificial Barrier Save It?
They call it the Doomsday Glacier.
