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Satellites Shed Light On Global Warming (April 27, 2007) -- As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the ... > full story

Fungi Respond To Climate Change (April 25, 2007) -- Climate change is dramatically altering the growing patterns of mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi, new research has ... > full story

Space Data Unveils Evidence Of Ancient Mega-lake In Northern Darfur (April 12, 2007) -- Researchers used recently acquired topographic data from satellites to reveal an ancient mega-lake in the Darfur province of northwestern Sudan. According to the researchers, mapping the site of the ... > full story

Abrupt Climate Change Far More Common Than Previously Thought (April 9, 2007) -- It came on quickly and then lasted nearly two decades, eventually killing more than one million people and affecting 50 million more. All of this makes the Sahel drought, which first struck West ... > full story

Greenhouse Gas Effect Consistent Over 420 Million Years (March 29, 2007) -- New calculations show that sensitivity of Earth's climate to changes in the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide has been consistent for the last 420 million years, according to an article in Nature by ... > full story

Gravity Measurements Help Melt Ice Mysteries (March 28, 2007) -- Greenland is cold and hot. It's a deep freezer storing 10 percent of Earth's ice and a subject of fevered debate. If something should melt all that ice, global sea level could rise as much as 7 ... > full story

Global Warming Forecasts Creation, Loss Of Climate Zones (March 27, 2007) -- A new global warming study predicts that many current climate zones will vanish entirely by the year 2100, replaced by climates unknown in today's ... > full story

New Evidence Puts 'Snowball Earth' Theory Out In The Cold (March 25, 2007) -- The theory that Earth once underwent a prolonged time of extreme global freezing has been dealt a blow by new evidence that periods of warmth occurred during this so-called "Snowball Earth" ... > full story

Climate Change: Could It Be Random? (March 10, 2007) -- Severe climate changes during the last ice-age could have been caused by random chaotic variations on Earth and not governed by external periodic influences from the sun. This has been shown in new ... > full story

Heatwave On The Top Of The World (March 7, 2007) -- CNRS scientists in collaboration with a team announce findings that global warming has increased the average temperature by 0.74 degrees C over the last century. This result was published on Feb. 7, ... > full story

Miniature Lab Ice Spikes May Hold Clues To Warming Impacts On Glaciers (March 6, 2007) -- Tiny lab versions of 12-foot tall snow spikes that form naturally on some high mountain glaciers may someday help scientists mitigate the effects of global warming in the Andes, according to a ... > full story

Sediment Wedge Key To Glacial Environmental Stability (March 6, 2007) -- A wedge of sediment, pushed up by glacial movement, may be a buffer against moderate sea level rise, pointing to ocean temperature rise as the key factor in glacial retreat, according to two papers ... > full story

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt : 3 Volume Set
Featuring 600 original articles written by leading scholars, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt goes far beyond the records of archaeology to make available what we know about the full social, ... > read more

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
The Bible Unearthed is a balanced, thoughtful, bold reconsideration of the historical period that produced the Hebrew Bible. The headline news in this book is easy to pick out: there is no evidence ... > read more

Myths of the Archaic State : Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations
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The 12th Planet (The Earth Chronicles, Book 1)
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The Oracle : The Lost Secrets and Hidden Messages of Ancient Delphi
A renegade team of scientists discovers the truth behind the Oracle of Delphi's mythical powers of second sight. Of all the stories of life in ancient Greece, few capture the imagination as much as ... > read more

The Archaeology of Ancient Judea and Palestine (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
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Underground! : The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History
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The Winds of Change : Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context.Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At ... > read more

Elemental Geosystems, Fourth Edition
This book gives readers an accessible, systematic, non-mathematical, and visually appealing start in physical geography. It features a distinctive, holistic integration of human-Earth relationships, ... > read more

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ... > read more