P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

The researchers also looked at changes in the late Miocene thermocline, or the ocean layer where warmer, shallow waters meet colder, deeper waters. By comparing oxygen isotope data retrieved from ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the 1860s, magpies are known for their territorial dive-bombing during the ...

Here we use these cores to show that the transition from poorly oxygenated to fully oxygenated (‘ventilated’) conditions in the Arctic Ocean occurred during the later part of early Miocene times.

A new study reveals that vegetation shifts—triggered by global cooling and paleogeographic change—also accelerated major climate changes during the Late Miocene, creating a feedback loop.

Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is connected with rising ocean temperatures, a recent study has revealed.

The oceanographers examined cores -- sediment samples from deep parts of the ocean floor -- from the Oligocene-Miocene era, roughly 23 million years ago, from areas near Tasmania and Antarctica in ...

While most open ocean sharks disappeared after the event, coastal sharks survived, and today's sharks most likely ascended from the survivors. Terry Goss via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Sharks ...

Oxygen concentrations play a role in the rates of breakdown of organic matter and the cycling of different elements in the environment.