Welcome to PAGES

The PAGES (Past Global Changes) project is an international effort to coordinate and promote past global change research. The primary objective is to improve our understanding of past changes in the Earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. ... more

PAGES is open and inclusive to all scientists interested in past global changes. In February 2017, PAGES' parent organization Future Earth published a statement affirming its commitment to supporting international collaboration and the free movement of scientists and flow of data, information and knowledge for global sustainability. PAGES fully supports the Future Earth statement.

PAGES is funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Sciences. It is a core project of Future Earth and a scientific partner of WCRP.

New LandCover6k products

Details: Published: Monday, 25 September 2017 11:40

Two journal articles have recently been published by members of the LandCover6k working group.

"Relative pollen productivity estimates for major plant taxa of cultural landscapes in central eastern China", by Li Furong et al. in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, estimate relative pollen productivity for plant taxa characteristic of human-induced vegetation in ancient cultural landscapes of the low mountain ranges of Shandong province in eastern temperate China. Access it here.

Laurent Marquer et al., in their Quaternary Science Reviews paper "Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe", present a novel approach that combines pollen-based REVEALS estimates of plant cover with climate, anthropogenic land-cover and dynamic vegetation modeling results. This is used to quantify the relative impacts of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in northern and western Europe north of the Alps. Access it here.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:31

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

Be involved in IPCC AR6

Details: Published: Monday, 18 September 2017 16:14

PAGES' parent organization Future Earth is collating nominations for Lead Authors, Coordinating Lead Authors and Expert Reviewers for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report (AR6) and paleoscience needs your voice.

Read the agreed chapter outlines for AR6 for Working Group I - The Physical Science Basis; Working Group II - Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; and Working Group III - Mitigation of Climate Change. Paleoscience will not have its own chapter, but will be embedded in all chapters.

If you are willing to take a leading role in AR6 or would like to suggest colleagues that should take part in the writing of AR6, fill out the relevant Working Group nomination form (below) and send, along with a CV (pdf, in English, less than four pages) to PAGES Executive Director This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 14 October 2017.

Biodiversity in new PAGES Mag

Details: Published: Wednesday, 30 August 2017 09:34

Past Global Changes Magazine vol. 25 (2)

The latest issue of Past Global Changes Magazine "Sustaining Earth’s Biodiversity" is now available to read and download.

This issue, guest edited by PAGES Scientific Steering Committee members Lindsey Gillson and Peter Gell, highlights how the study of long-term ecosystem change can provide critical insights into the resilience of ecosystems, the restoration of disturbance regimes and the prediction of future responses to changing climate and disturbance.

It also contains a mini section written by participants of PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting plus over 20 workshop reports.

Global Monsoon 2nd synthesis

Details: Published: Thursday, 17 August 2017 15:29

The much-anticipated second synthesis product from PAGES' former working group Global Monsoon is now in press in Earth-Science Reviews.

Pinxian Wang et al. address driving mechanisms of global monsoon (GM) variability and outstanding issues in GM science in their paper, titled "The global monsoon across time scales: mechanisms and outstanding issues."