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 ...

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A century’s worth of microscopic shells has revealed that ocean acidification is occurring in California waters at twice the rate of the global average. Ocean acidification stems from the same problem ...

In first-of-its-kind research, scientists used 100 years of microscopic shells to show that the coastal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean average -- with the ...

IS LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE... BUT THAT'S NOT ALL THAT'S IN PLAY HERE IN THE NORTH PACIFIC. OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IS ACCELERATING.. AND MARINE LIFE OFF OF CALIFORNIA'S COAST COULD END UP PAYING THE ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck the earth, initiating mass species die-offs. Scientists have long believed that the impact’s marine extinctions were due to ocean acidification, but ...

Scientists have shown that macroscopic-level models of the properties of microscopic hollow spheres agree very well with theoretical predictions. The new study has implications for targeted drug ...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—Microscopic examination of five 120,000-year-old clamshells unearthed in Israel’s Qafzeh Cave detected striations around naturally occurring holes near their tops, according to an Ars ...