PAGES Horizons issues
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. This third issue deals with the theme on how studying past extreme wet and dry phases aids our understanding, and informs future action, on floods and droughts under the current global change.
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The full magazine is available in the following formats:
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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
Individual Articles
> Front Cover > Table of Contents
> Exploring the past force of water [p. 03]
Juan A. Ballesteros-Cánovas, Gerardo Benito, Keely Mills, Ray Lombardi, Boris Vannière, Graciela Gil-Romera and Iván Hernández-Almeida
> Climate shifts during the Dark Ages and medieval Warm Period [p. 04–06]
Deborah Tangunan, Jose Dominick Guballa, Eleanor John, Richard Jason Antonio and Jesse Jose Nogot
> What do cave deposits tell us about past floods? [p. 07–12]
Miguel Bartolomé, Reyes Giménez, Guillermo Pérez-Villar, Marc Luetscher, Ana Moreno, Heather Stoll and Gerardo Benito; illustrations: Cooked Illustrations
> Tracking hydroclimate extremes from deep In the tropics [p. 13–19]
Natasha Sekhon, Celia Kong-Johnson, Annabelle Gao, Bryce K. Belanger, Sharon Tabujara, Jayrald V. Gatdula, Mart C. M. Geronia, Mónica Geraldes Vega, Justin Custado, Carlos C. P. David and Daniel E. Ibarra
> Changing rainfall patterns over the Amazon rainforest [p. 20–23]
Gerbrand Koren; illustrations: Cirenia Arias Baldrich
> Future memories of a river [p. 24–29]
Marco Palombelli and Peter Gitau
> After the storm: How clues from past hurricanes help prepare us for our future [p. 30–33]
Joshua Bregy and Emily Elliott; illustrations: Cirenia Arias Baldrich
> Global warming impacts on foods In high mountain regions [p. 34–39]
Juan A. Ballesteros-Cánovas, Ray Lombardi and Gerardo Benito; illustrations: Cooked Illustrations
> Laki eruption [p. 40–43]
Katrin Kleemann; illustrations: Cooked Illustrations
> Glossary [p. 44–45]
Ray Lombardi
> Meet the authors and illustrators [p. 46–47]
> Paleotherapy [p. 48]
Graciela Gil-Romera; illustrations: Cirenia Arias Baldrich
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.
Access individual articles further below.
The full magazine is available in the following formats:
> High resolution pdf (129.4 MB)
> Low resolution pdf (15.6 MB)
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
> Read the PAGES Press Release (EN) (ES) (FR)
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
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.
Access individual articles further below.
The full magazine is available in the following formats:
> High resolution pdf (54.4 MB)
> Low resolution pdf (8.3 MB)
> Access an interactive PDF via the online publication platform Issuu
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
> Read the PAGES Press Release
Individual Articles
> Front Cover (Illustration by Jérémie Moreau)
> Table of Contents
Editorial
> Editorial: Has changed, is changing, will change: Our home the Earth [p.3]
Boris Vannière, Graciela Gil-Romera and Sarah Eggleston
Open Highlights
> Paleoscience and the UN Sustainable Development Goals [p.4-5]
Keely Mills and Matthew Jones
> Can we tell how climate will change in the future? [p.6-8]
Frank Oldfield
> How green were the oceans in the past? [p.9-11]
Iván Hernández-Almeida and Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero
> From the depths of the Amundsen Sea [p.12-15]
Margot Courtillat
> Why sea level is not level [p.16-19]
Juliet Sefton and Fangyi Tan
> A message from the buried past: Deciphering the location of ancient settlements [p.20-22]
Hadar Elyashiv
> The stone readers [p.23-27]
Jérémie Moreau and Boris Vannière
> Young scientists speak about global change sciences [p.28-29]
Stella Alexandroff, Alicja Bonk and Tamara Trofimova
> The South Pacific and climate change [p.30-33]
Silvia Frisia, Nicole Pierce and Pauline Treble
> Linking lead pollution in ice cores to ancient history [p.34-35]
Nathan Chellman and Joe McConnell
> Lake mud detectives [p.36-37]
Laura Hunt, Angela Nankabirwa and Tessa Driessen
> Pollen reveals the plant world of the past [p.38-40]
Andrea Miebach
> How to record fires that burned thousands of years ago [p.41-43]
Emma Rehn
> Humans and environments in the most arid place of the world [p.44-48]
María Eugenia de Porras, Eugenia M. Gayó, Mauricio Uribe and Antonio Maldonado
> Past farmers and the environment [p.49-51]
Jerry Olatoyan
> Paleovirology [p.52-53]
Marco Palombelli and Peter Gitau
> Glossary [p.54-55]
Robyn Granger and Graciela Gil-Romera
> Meet the authors and illustrators [p.56-57]
> Resources, references and acknowledgments [p.58-59]
> Paleotherapy [p.60]
Peb & Fox and Boris Vannière
Media mentions
> WCRP home page, 13 April 2021
> Future Earth home page, 13 April 2021
> thedebrief.org, 14 April 2021
> Interview (in Spanish) on Ebro FM radio with editor Graciela Gil-Romera, 6 May 2021.