In the 16th century, Europe and the North Atlantic went through ... Yet, using historical documents comes with challenges.

Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century than the information ... a magnificent reminder of Europe’s first efforts to ...

A team of researchers in Romania looked through historical documents like travel notes, church records and personal diaries to piece together how the climate shifted throughout the 16th century.

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added to the lake by humans as early as the 7th century CE. The findings ...