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12 May 2025
Webinar for Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary
To mark its 20th anniversary, CP is launching a special webinar series celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The first webinar on "Past Abrupt Climate Changes and Tipping Points" will take place Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 16:00 CEST. Please read more. 
12 May 2025
Webinar for Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary
To mark its 20th anniversary, CP is launching a special webinar series celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The first webinar on "Past Abrupt Climate Changes and Tipping Points" will take place Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 16:00 CEST. Please read more. 
03 Jun 2025
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Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ18O record over the past 4.5 million years
Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun, Yair Rosenthal, Chenyu Zhu, Patrick J. Bartlein, Jonathan M. Gregory, Peter Köhler, Zhengyu Liu, and Daniel P. Schrag
Clim. Past, 21, 973–1000, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025, 2025
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02 Jun 2025
Impact of deoxygenation and hydrological changes on the Black Sea nitrogen cycle during the Last Deglaciation and Holocene
Anna Cutmore, Nicole Bale, Rick Hennekam, Bingjie Yang, Darci Rush, Gert-Jan Reichart, Ellen C. Hopmans, and Stefan Schouten
Clim. Past, 21, 957–971, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-957-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-957-2025, 2025
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02 Jun 2025
Living on the edge: Response of rudist bivalves (Hippuritida) to hot and highly seasonal climate in the low-latitude Saiwan site, Oman
Niels J. de Winter, Najat al Fudhaili, Iris Arndt, Philippe Claeys, René Fraaije, Steven Goderis, John Jagt, Matthias López Correa, Axel Munnecke, Jarosław Stolarski, and Martin Ziegler
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2308,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2308, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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28 May 2025
A multimillennial Alpine ice core chronology synchronized with an accurately dated Arctic Pb record
Paolo Gabrielli, Theo M. Jenk, Michele Bertó, Giuliano Dreossi, Daniela Festi, Werner Kofler, Mai Winstrup, Klaus Oeggl, Margit Schwikowski, Barbara Stenni, and Carlo Barbante
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2174,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2174, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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03 Jun 2025
Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ18O record over the past 4.5 million years
Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun, Yair Rosenthal, Chenyu Zhu, Patrick J. Bartlein, Jonathan M. Gregory, Peter Köhler, Zhengyu Liu, and Daniel P. Schrag
Clim. Past, 21, 973–1000, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025, 2025
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11 Apr 2025
High-resolution Holocene record based on detailed tephrochronology from Torfdalsvatn, north Iceland, reveals natural and anthropogenic impacts on terrestrial and aquatic environments
David J. Harning, Christopher R. Florian, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Thor Thordarson, Gifford H. Miller, Yarrow Axford, and Sædís Ólafsdóttir
Clim. Past, 21, 795–815, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025, 2025
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20 Mar 2025
Reconstruction of Holocene and Last Interglacial vegetation dynamics and wildfire activity in southern Siberia
Jade Margerum, Julia Homann, Stuart Umbo, Gernot Nehrke, Thorsten Hoffmann, Anton Vaks, Aleksandr Kononov, Alexander Osintsev, Alena Giesche, Andrew Mason, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Gideon M. Henderson, Ola Kwiecien, and Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Clim. Past, 21, 661–677, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025, 2025
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