All climate proxies articles

  • Chemical fossils - sea ice
    Feature

    Chemical fossils

    2017-02-02T12:20:00Z

    Andy Extance finds out what organic molecules made by microorganisms and plants far in the past can tell us about climate

  • galcier
    Feature

    Chemical climate proxies

    2013-01-23T00:00:00Z

    With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work