The analysis of a sediment core from an oasis lake in Chad provides new insights into the history of precipitation in the Sahara. The study, led by the University of Cologne, shows that a prolonged ...

Deep under Antarctic ice, a 748-foot ice core recovered by the SWAIS2C project reveals past warm, ice-free periods on the ...

Marine scientist Matthew Costa is used to digging into research—literally. Over the course of his PhD program at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Costa frequently muddied his hands ...

For two months, a team of researchers from ten countries lived and worked in a remote field camp in West Antarctica. Their efforts have culminated in the recovery of a remarkable record of past ...

Fossils of an intact root network, pollen, and spores discovered near the South Pole reveal a temperate rainforest existed ...

Dr. Trisha Spanbauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences. She analyzed sediment cores taken from lakes across North America in a research article she co-authored in ...

A team of scientists, engineers, and ship's crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently collected a 38-foot-long cylindrical ...

Lush forests and crisp mountain air have drawn people to New York’s Adirondack Mountains for centuries. In the late 1800s, these forests were a haven for tuberculosis patients seeking the cool, fresh ...