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What can Madagascar’s caves reveal about climate shifts and intensifying monsoons in the Indian Ocean?

By Christiana Freitag Medill News Service, Dec. 15, 2024 On an island of indigenous species, like the panther chameleon, the ring-tailed lemur and the cat-like fossa, found nowhere else on Earth, Madagascar caves also contain time capsules of the climate history of the western Indian Ocean. Now, paleoclimatologists are investigating what Madagascar can tell us …

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Nearly a million years of ice and atmosphere are stored in this Colorado lab

By Dilpreet Raju, June 14, 2023 –  Thousands of meters of ice banked in below-freezing temperatures allow climate researchers to analyze what the Earth’s climate was like hundreds of thousands of years ago and document the rapidly accelerating rise of carbon emissions, the thermostat driving global warming. Climatologists can then take bits of the ice, …

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