The Ice Age was a hard period in Earth's history, but ancient humans were quite the hardy bunch. They managed survive and even thrive; here's how they did it.

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

Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...

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

The Cycle of Ice Ages Ice ages don't just appear out of nowhere. They are part of a natural cycle that our planet has experienced numerous times. These periods are marked by significant drops in ...

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

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

Land clearing and logging slash fed serial conflagrations, which blew up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — the waning decades of the Little Ice Age. This havoc inspired the federal ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — Investigations into precipitation patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation, such as the ...