Climatologists analyze various natural climate data repositories to understand Earth’s past. Glaciers, sediments, and pollen convene to form a kind of “nature’s archive” from which natural scientists ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond 'nature's archive,', other sources, such as diaries, travel ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Let’s talk about data. Just the facts. These data are information gathered by satellites, instruments on the ground (thermometers, wind speed gauges, etc.), lasers and the many other ways humans use ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

Proclaiming that a "golden age begins right now", Mr Trump also said ... beside him as he gave the oath of office for the second time in his life. A gun salute marked the beginning of the 47th ...

I track down Doug at his home in Petawawa in eastern Ontario. All these years later, he can still recall, in detail, the ...