Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

During the late Miocene epoch, about seven million years ago, large areas of the continents
experienced drying, enhanced seasonality, and a restructuring of terrestrial plant and animal …

A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into
the dynamical limits of Earth's climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and …

Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

The late Miocene offers the opportunity to assess the sensitivity of the Earth's climate to
orbital forcing and to changing boundary conditions, such as ice volume and greenhouse …

Prevailing opinion assigns the Tibetan Plateau a crucial role in shaping Asian climate,
primarily by heating of the atmosphere over Tibet during spring and summer. Accordingly …

The long-standing view of Earth's Cenozoic glacial history calls for the first continental-scale
glaciation of Antarctica in the earliest Oligocene epoch (∼ 33.6 million years ago), followed …

After a long period of controversial debate about the interpretation of the Messinian salinity
crisis (MSC), a near consensus existed since the ODP Leg 42A for a model keeping the …

Unraveling the dynamics of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation (NHG) in the Pliocene is a
key step toward a quantitative theory of the climate transition from a greenhouse to an …