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Life after Snowball Earth

The first organisms to emerge after an ancient worldwide glaciation likely evolved hardy survival skills, arming themselves with tough exteriors to weather a frozen climate. Researchers at MIT, Harvard...

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A climate window in the Southern Ocean

The world’s oceans act as a massive conveyor, circulating heat, water and carbon around the planet. This global system plays a key role in climate change, storing and releasing heat throughout the...

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A ride on the 800,000-year roller coaster

Measurements from bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice-cores reveal dramatic peaks and valleys in Earth's climate system over the last 800,000 years: atmospheric carbon dioxide over the Antarctic drops by...

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