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carbon burp

Detection of huge carbon burp that helped end ice age

25 May 2010

Scientists have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide "burp" that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice...

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island

Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history

01 Nov 2009

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

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Field of Wheat in Albania

Prehistoric migrants spread farming in Europe

04 Sep 2009

Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.

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Timeless books

Forgotten rival to Pepys finally reaches bookshop shelves

03 Aug 2007

A 900,000-word eyewitness account of life in Restoration England, viewed as a “rival” to Pepys' diary but virtually forgotten since the 1700s, is...

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