Learn more about the Magdalenian peoples, who left traces of dissection and cannibalism on bones in a cave in Poland.

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

For centuries, people have kept diaries documenting the ups and downs of local weather. Now, scientists have combed through a ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species – according to estimates , roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 – twice the ...

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 ...

New info about the region of present-day Romania associated with the legend of Dracula was revealed in a new study. The post ...

Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

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 ...

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

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