If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...