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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — A study gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. The study could lead to more accurate weather and climate ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...