A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...

The patterns and changes in the climate system during the Pliocene could presage how the planet will respond to near-future climate change. For instance, paleoclimatology tells us that smaller ice ...

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 ...

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., ...