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ArticleNature communications2025

Pleistocene terrestrial warming trend in East Asia linked to Antarctic ice sheets growth.

Huanye Wang, Weiguo Liu, Zhonghui Liu, Xiaoke Qiang, Xinwen Xu, Jing Lei, Zhengguo Shi, Yunning Cao, Jing Hu, Fengyan Lu and 11 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Huanye WangState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China. wanghy@ieecas.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2149-3097
Weiguo LiuState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Zhonghui LiuState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China. zhliu@hku.hk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2168-8305
Xiaoke QiangState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0014-2477
Xinwen XuShaanxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface System and Environmental Carrying Capacity, College of Urban and Environmental Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Jing LeiState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Zhengguo ShiState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Yunning CaoState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Jing HuState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Fengyan LuState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Hongxuan LuState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9775-4348
Xiaolin MaState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Youbin SunState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6696-6620
Zhangdong JinState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1457-0552
Hong AoState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3337-520X
Zeke ZhangState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5829-7175
Hu LiuState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Yong HuState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Hong YanState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1230-096X
Weijian ZhouState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9641-5734
Zhisheng AnState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China. anzs@loess.llqg.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9538-9826

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42122021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How terrestrial mean annual temperature (MAT) evolved throughout the past 2 million years (Myr) remains elusive, limiting our understanding of the patterns, mechanisms, and impacts of past temperature changes. Here we report a ~2-Myr terrestrial MAT record based on fossil microbial lipids preserved in the Heqing paleolake, East Asia. The increased amplitude and periodicity shift of glacial-interglacial changes in our record align with those in sea surface temperature (SST) records. However, its long-term warming trend (1.0 °C/Myr, 95% CI = 0.4-1.7 °C/Myr) during 1.8-0.6 Myr ago diverges from the contemporaneous SST cooling. We propose that the Pleistocene warming in East Asia primarily resulted from regionally enhanced heat input and greenhouse effect of rising water vapor driven by Antarctic ice sheets (AIS) growth, highlighting the important climatic effect of AIS evolution. Such long-term warming across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition might have been beneficial for archaic humans' flourishing in Eurasia.

Indexed as

Climate ChangeGlobal WarmingIce CoverAntarctic RegionsAsia, EasternFossilsHistory, AncientTemperature

Identifiers

PMID40931091
PMCPMC12423306

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