Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire's collapse.

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

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

Glaciers are some of our planet’s oldest inhabitants, but during several icy periods, they covered much more of Earth’s ...

A research team now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of more than 3,000 m in ... Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age Feb. 12 ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

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

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

The prehistoric skis were buried underneath the glacier for over a thousand years before researchers made the discovery ...