A windy day at Allan Hills in December 2022. (Peter Neff/COLDEX) The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly ...

An international team led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has just published a ...

Imagine a time when the blue planet looked nothing like it does today. A time when the oceans were frozen over, the continents were locked in a thick sheet of ice, and the sun reflected off a world ...

The weather from here on out is more important for the timing than whatever happened this winter, say the experts.

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

The North Sea is home to the remains of a vast land that has been lost to time and is referred to as Doggerland, the area of ...

I have read your correspondence about this article and think that both the article and these letters miss a couple of important points. During the last glacial period, there were land bridges between ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

About 2.7 million years ago, Earth’s climate reached a tipping point that transformed a stable world into one marked by ice ages and abrupt swings. The planet moved from a mostly warm and steady ...

Researchers have identified a ‘tipping point’ about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...

Fossils uncovered in Japan, thought to be from the archipelago’s lost tiger population, have now been revealed to be of an ancient species of lion. While there are no native lion or tiger populations ...