Rapid global warming marked the boundary between the Palaeocene and Eocene periods 55.6 million years ago, but how the temperature rise was initiated remains elusive. A catastrophic release of ...

These ancient changes could offer critical warnings about the impact of modern global warming. The early Eocene was a time of intense volcanic activity, releasing massive amounts of greenhouse ...

Climate is the major factor that determines ... In the Middle to Late Eocene, North America experienced mountain building and drying trends which turned the humid subtropical forests into ...

and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole. "We have exquisite information about ...

But even this behemoth is unlikely to survive a return to an Eocene Climate. West Antarctica: Like the Greenland ice sheet, the West Antarctic one was apparently much smaller during earlier warm ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) but the cause of the warming is still debated. Huge amounts of carbon entered into the atmosphere at the time along with methane.

An environmental group is helping pork producers focus on sustainability. Sara Crawford, senior vice president of ...

Our climate today is actually a warm interval between ... But this warm period, called the Eocene, was followed by a long cooling trend. Between 52 and 36 million years ago, ice caps developed ...

Fossilized foraminifera, such as these embedded in Tanzanian limestone, reveal that polar warming during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that offers a glimpse of our potential future climate ...

However, he said the results from the Eocene could help to shore up the computer models that are being used to estimate how sensitive climate is to the emissions that will certainly rise in the ...