The climate today is changing fast and towards conditions never before experienced by
humans. Some geological time periods might however be important analogues for possible …

To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth's climate changed
over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide …

Humans have changed the Earth so profoundly that we've ushered in the first new geologic
period since the ice ages. So, what are we going to do about it? Ever since Nobel Prize …

When I was in high school and very keen about studying ancient history and archaeology, I
learned about an exciting new approach to archaeological fieldwork that had been making …

In the eighteenth century, James Hutton came up with a theory that revolutionized the
science of geology,'The present is a key to the past'. But could the past also be a guide to …

Face à l'accumulation de travaux liés à l'histoire du climat, les mises au point régulières sont
devenues une nécessité. Le présent ouvrage suit d'ailleurs de près, par son organisation …

I grew up in Germany in the 1970s and 80s, where I became a competitive cross-country
skier in my teenage years. Back then, the sport was popular in the Harz Mountains near my …

In 2015, annual average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels surpassed a level of 400
parts per million (ppm) for the first time in three million years. This has caused widespread …

As rapidly receding ice sheets brought the Pleistocene epoch to an end around 12,000
years ago, the warmer and more stable climate heralded the inception of the Holocene. No …

Climate change threatens the habitability of the earth, and it is the consequence of human
action having turned into a geological force. This is our new human condition, which we …