Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating ...

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...

The eruption was so powerful it caused global temperatures to drop by around 1C and led to widespread crop failures ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Researchers found 100+ volcanoes beneath Antarctic ice along the active West Antarctic Rift System, dating back to the ...

In climates cold enough to freeze, you never know what is hidden underneath the ice. For countless years, humans have … ...

Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms. Global warming could awaken dormant volcanoes, triggering a chain reaction with unpredictable consequences. This recent discovery sheds light on ...

A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, ...

Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives—a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) ...