Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
News and Views
Nature 428, 130-132 (11 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428130a
Open Innovation Challenges
-
Single-cell Analysis Platform
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to analyzing changes at a single-cell level. This is...
-
Methods to Analyze Consumer Emotions
The Seeker is looking for methods to analyze consumer emotions. This Challenge requires only a writ...
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
John Innes Centre Project Leader in Plant or Microbial Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Assistant or Associate Professor - Cell & Systems Biology
- University of Toronto
- Toronto, ON Canada
Global change: An Earth on fire
Helmut Weissert1 & Stefano M. Bernasconi1
Abstract
Fifty-five million years ago the Earth suddenly got much hotter. Events are recorded in a 'spike' in the carbon-isotope record, for which a provocative new explanation has been proposed.
In 1997–98, extreme El Niño climatic conditions in the tropical Pacific had severe consequences in Indonesia. A prolonged period of dry weather resulted in drought, and favoured the ensuing forest and peat fires (Fig. 1
- Helmut Weissert and Stefano M. Bernasconi are in the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
e-mail: Email: weissert@erdw.ethz.ch
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
NEWS AND VIEWS
Palaeoclimate The riddle of the claysNature Geoscience News and Views (01 Feb 2008)
Global change Hydrocarbon-driven warmingNature News and Views (03 Jun 2004)
Global change Deciphering methane's fingerprintNature News and Views (27 Jul 2000)
See all 5 matches for News And ViewsRESEARCH
Increased terrestrial methane cycling at the Palaeocene?Eocene thermal maximumNature Letters to Editor (20 Sep 2007)
Astronomical pacing of methane release in the Early Jurassic periodNature Letters to Editor (15 Sep 2005)
See all 3 matches for Research