The last 6000years are of particular interest to the understanding of the Earth System
because the boundary conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in …

A reconstruction of Holocene sea ice conditions in the Fram Strait provides insight into the
palaeoenvironmental and palaeoceanographic development of this climate sensitive area …

A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

Following its initial arrival in SE Europe 8,500 years ago agriculture spread throughout the
continent, changing food production and consumption patterns and increasing population …

We report the first observations of settled blue mussels Mytilus edulis L. in the high Arctic
archipelago of Svalbard for the first time since the Viking Age. A scattered population was …

Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) were recorded in Isfjorden, Svalbard (78 15'N, 15 1T
E) in late September 2013. This record is the northernmost known occurrence of mackerel in …

Methane seepage from the upper continental slopes of Western Svalbard has previously
been attributed to gas hydrate dissociation induced by anthropogenic warming of ambient …

During the early Holocene abrupt, decadal to centennial-scale climate variations caused
significant glacier variations in Norway. Increased freshwater inflow to the North Atlantic and …

The nature and tempo of Holocene climate variability is examined in the record of forest
vegetation from western Mediterranean marine core MD95-2043. Episodes of forest decline …

Two cores from the southwestern shelf and slope of Storfjorden, Svalbard, taken at 389 m
and 1485 m water depth have been analyzed for benthic and planktic foraminifera, oxygen …