What we think of as the classic West Coast climate began just about 4,000 years ago, finds a study on climate trends of the Holocene era. People often say things like Phoenix has always been dry; ...
Understanding how Earth's climate has naturally fluctuated during the Holocene—the current geological epoch spanning the last 11,700 years—is crucial for contextualizing modern human-driven warming ...
This study is finished by a team of Prof. Xiayun Xiao (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Based on a well-dated, high-resolution sediment core from the Chaohu ...