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05 Mar 2026
10th webinar for CP's 20th Anniversary
We are happy to announce the 10th webinar of CP's special webinar series, celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The webinar on "Paleoclimate of Extreme Events" will take place on Wednesday, 8 April 2026, 17:00 CEST. Please read more. 
05 Mar 2026
10th webinar for CP's 20th Anniversary
We are happy to announce the 10th webinar of CP's special webinar series, celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The webinar on "Paleoclimate of Extreme Events" will take place on Wednesday, 8 April 2026, 17:00 CEST. Please read more.
18 Feb 2026
9th webinar for CP's 20th Anniversary
We are happy to announce the 9th webinar of CP's special webinar series, celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The webinar on "Past volcanism and Climate" will take place on Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 16:00 CEST. Please read more.
18 Feb 2026
9th webinar for CP's 20th Anniversary
We are happy to announce the 9th webinar of CP's special webinar series, celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The webinar on "Past volcanism and Climate" will take place on Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 16:00 CEST. Please read more.
08 Apr 2026
Exploring the Cenozoic Earth system with extraterrestrial 3He
Jordan T. Abell, Frank J. Pavia, Jennifer L. Middleton, and Gisela Winckler
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1583,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1583, 2026
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31 Mar 2026
Silicate weathering in the semi-arid Southern Pyrenees during the PETM: lithium isotope evidence
Rocio Jaimes-Gutierrez, Marine Prieur, David J. Wilson, Philip A. E. Pogge von Strandmann, Emmanuelle Pucéat, Thierry Adatte, Jorge E. Spangenberg, and Sébastien Castelltort
Clim. Past, 22, 709–727, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-709-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-709-2026, 2026
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06 Mar 2026
Wine must yields as indicators of May to July climate in Central Europe, 1416–1988
Christian Pfister, Stefan Brönnimann, Laurent Litzenburger, Peter Thejll, Andres Altwegg, Rudolf Brázdil, Andrea Kiss, Erich Landsteiner, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, and Thomas Pliemon
Clim. Past, 22, 541–559, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-541-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-541-2026, 2026
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05 Mar 2026
Evaluation of nine gridded daily weather reconstructions for the European heatwave summer of 1807
Peter Stucki, Stefan Brönnimann, Noemi Imfeld, Lucas Pfister, Conall E. Ruth, Yannis V. Schmutz, Yuri Brugnara, Martin Wegmann, Rajmund Przybylak, and Janusz Filipiak
Clim. Past, 22, 517–540, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-517-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-517-2026, 2026
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09 Jan 2026
Historical Droughts in British Colonial Belize (1771–1981)
Oriol Ambrogio Gali, Sarah E. Metcalfe, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton, Betsabé de la Barreda-Bautista, Georgina H. Endfield, Sofia Márdero, Franziska Schrodt, and Alec McLellan
Clim. Past, 22, 25–47, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-25-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-25-2026, 2026
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06 Nov 2025
Holocene land cover change in North America: continental trends, regional drivers, and implications for vegetation–atmosphere feedbacks
Andria Dawson, John W. Williams, Marie-José Gaillard, Simon J. Goring, Behnaz Pirzamanbein, Johan Lindstrom, R. Scott Anderson, Andrea Brunelle, David Foster, Konrad Gajewski, Daniel G. Gavin, Terri Lacourse, Thomas A. Minckley, Wyatt Oswald, Bryan Shuman, and Cathy Whitlock
Clim. Past, 21, 2031–2060, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2031-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2031-2025, 2025
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