River terraces are among the most intriguing geomorphic features that have been reported
from the Peruvian Andes hosting some of the most classical staircase terrace systems. Here …

Understanding how tropical systems have responded to large-scale climate change, such as
glacial-interglacial oscillations, and how human impacts have altered those responses is …

Leaf cuticular waxes are one of the most important environment-plant interaction structural
systems that enable desert plants to withstand extreme climatic conditions. We present a …

Global warming during the Last Glacial Termination was interrupted by millennial-scale cool
intervals such as the Younger Dryas and the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR). Although these …

As humanity has been polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the planet is
getting warmed up which is triggering the frequency and the intensity of extreme events like …

Abstract The Middle Pleistocene is an important period of global climatic and environmental
evolution during the Quaternary. We conducted pollen analyses of 144 fossil samples and …

The loess-paleosol sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) are among the best
terrestrial archives for recording orbital-scale global paleoenvironmental and East Asian …

We present a detailed geomorphological characterisation of the Caracota Valley (18° 49′ S
69° 11′ W, 4200–4600 m) in the western Altiplano of Northern Chile. A complex pattern of …

Water resource is the primary factor impacting socio-economic development and security in
arid Central Asia where high water stress occurs. Therefore, understanding the mechanism …

To describe the composition of the penultimate glacial Brazilian Atlantic forest, we analyzed
pollen, charcoal and diatoms deposited in the section from 871 to 1400 cm of core CO14 …