A barrage of intense, wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. A re-creation of how ancient sea surface temperatures, ocean and ...
A reconstruction of Pacific Ocean temperatures 21,000 years ago based on the chemistry of tiny shells adds hefty support to projections that climate change will make strong El Niño events far ...
“Whilst the oceans were initially shielded from the temperature rises, the mega-El Ninos caused temperatures on land to exceed most species’ thermal tolerances at rates so rapid that they ...