The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The ...

And the climate aspect of this is very much in the ... That is about halfway to the Pliocene. And the Pliocene was a period about three million years ago when it was about three degrees warmer ...

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However, what the mid-Pliocene epoch can teach us about the future seasonal march of the East Asian summer monsoon rainband remains unknown. A study recently published in the Journal of Climate ...

We could have cleaner air, water and land, a stabler climate, more green spaces, better jobs and working conditions, greater ...

THE question of defining the Pliocene - Pleistocene boundary has become important in recent years, because the practices of different geologists have varied to such an extent that deposits ...

The deposition system was likely a transport-limited system, and like the White Channel Gravels of the Yukon (Hidy et al. 2013), may have been controlled by changing climate in the Pliocene (e.g., ...

"We are halfway to Pliocene-level warmth in just 150 years ... The year was marked by severe events worsened by the climate crisis, with temperatures so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys fell ...