A major puzzle of paleoclimatology is why, after a long interval of cooling climate, each late
Quaternary ice age ended with a relatively short warming leg called a termination. We here …

The late Paleozoic ice age (LPIA) consists of multiple glaciations that waxed and waned
across Gondwana during the Carboniferous and Permian. Three key intervals are evaluated …

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity
of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical …

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to weather processes and climatic
conditions around the world, their observed variability and changes, and projected future …

Global Physical Climatology, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the science of
climate and climate change that spans the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface, and the …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood's Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the …

The middle Miocene represents a major change in state in Cenozoic climatic evolution,
following the climax of Neogene warmth in the late early Miocene at∼ 16 Ma. The early …

The evidence for the Little Ice Age, the most important fluctuation in global climate in
historical times, is most dramatically represented by the advance of mountain glaciers in the …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …