Past Global Changes Horizons 2
Horizons highlights paleoscience topics of interest for the next generation, written in an easy to understand, visual format. It is a scientific review of why studying the past is important, mainly aimed at older high-school students and undergraduate students interested in environmental issues and global change. It promotes the use of comics, pictures, and drawings that support short papers with strong messages about past sciences and how to prepare for a changing future.
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Note: The figures in this magazine can be used freely, provided they are properly cited and the authors also agree. Original source data used in the figure should also be mentioned in the caption.
Press Releases
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Individual Articles
> Front Cover (Illustration by Quentin Girardclos)
> Table of Contents
Editorial
> Editorial: What can we learn from past warm worlds for our future? [p.3]
Boris Vannière, Nathaelle Bouttes, Graciela Gil-Romera, Emilie Capron and Sarah Eggleston
Open Highlights
> Can climate change humankind? This may have happened 450,000 years ago during a long climate-temperate period [p.4-7]
Marie-Hélène Moncel; illustrations: Quentin Girardclos
> Migrations [p.8-11]
Marco Palombelli and Peter Gitau
> Rapid drying of large, deep lakes in the karst mountains of the Lacandon Forest, southern Mexico [p.12-15]
Liseth Pérez and Matthias Bücker
> Will the Amazon survive a warmer world? [p.16-17]
Amanda Gerotto, Marcos de Luca and Renata Hanae Nagai
> Warm climates in the deep past [p.18-21]
Gilles Ramstein; illustrations: Cirenia Arias Baldrich
> Ti(c)k to(c)k: Into the geologic clock [p.22-24]
José Dominick Guballa, Deborah Tangunan, Richard Jason Antonio and Jesse José Nogot
> Past global warming in the Basin of Mexico [p.25-27]
Rodrigo Martínez-Abarca, Socorro Lozano-García, Antonio Flores-Martínez, Beatriz Ortega-Guerrero and Margarita Caballero
> What can algae tell us about Antarctic sea ice 130,000 years ago? And what does it mean for the future? [p.28-31]
Mathew Chadwick and Claire S. Allen
> A gut-wrenching climate archive: What the stomach content of an Antarctic bird can tell us about past climate [p.32-37]
Thale Damm-Johnsen and Ellie Honan
> Better forecasts of sea ice change? Melt puddles and melt models [p.38-40]
Louise Sime, Irene Malmierca, Rachel Diamond and David Schroeder
> The story of interglacial permafrost unraveled in frozen caves [p.41-45]
Stuart Umbo, Franziska Lechleitner and Sebastian Breitenbach
> Stalagmite memories of ancient rainfall [p.46-50] 
Alena Kimbrough and Daniel A. Becker
> The mystery of the shells at the river bank [p.51-55] 
Angélica Ballesteros-Prada
> From a secret cold war project to the future of the ice sheet [p.56-65]
Andrew Christ and Paul Bierman
> Antarctic foxes [p.66]
Alex Vauthier and Foxes in Love
> The science behind the comic: Ice-core records as clues to past changes [p.67]
Nathaelle Bouttes and Emilie Capron
> Back to the future? Climate clues from past warm periods [p.68-74]
Emilie Capron and Nathaelle Bouttes; illustrations: Cirenia Arias Baldrich
> Glossary [p.75-76]
Nathaelle Bouttes and Emilie Capron
> Meet the authors and illustrators [p.77-79]
> Paleotherapy [p.80]
Vincent Franchini, Quentin Girardclos and Boris Vannière