Comparison of records over the past 400,000 years. (A) Marine benthic foraminifera δ¹⁸O (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005); (B) Loess magnetic susceptibility (Sun et al., 2021); (C) Microcodium δ¹⁸O record ...

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Professor Isabel Montañez, a chancellor’s leadership professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, joined UC Davis in 1998.(Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Our planet’s history is one of ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...

Scientists abhor anything that smacks of soothsaying, rarely let themselves get caught in a flat prediction. But into the serious studies of many eminently respectable scientists can be read some of ...

Abu Dhabi-UAE – The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science (UAEREP), managed by the National Center of Meteorology (NCM), is set to announce three new awardees for its Sixth Cycle grants ...