The Holocene epoch, spanning the last c.11,700 years, has witnessed profound shifts in climate, vegetation and human influence. Palaeoecological research reconstructs these dynamics through analyses ...

The Holocene epoch has witnessed profound shifts in climate, vegetation and landscapes, driven by natural forcings and intensified by human activities. Warming after the last glacial interval ...

Four huge glaciers could soon disappear entirely in the iconic state of California. They have existed for millennia and could ...

What they had, it turns out, is the oldest intact climate record ever recovered in Western Europe — a continuous chemical ...

Human brains have been shrinking since prehistoric times, some studies suggest. Whether this is true and why it has happened ...

In 2012, a wildfire ripped through 42 square kilometers of alpine moorland in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains, a range of ...

The site, located about 25 kilometres from Thoothukudi, was first identified by an enthusiast in December 2025. Following ...

Historic blaze: A 2012 fire scorched 42 square kilometers of alpine moorland in the Rwenzori Mountains, the first such high-altitude event in 12,000 years. Evidence in sediments: Lake sediment cores ...

Fishermen in Thoothukudi raise alarm as large seaweed quantities wash ashore, blaming climate change. Separately, 8,000-12,000-year-old marine fossils were discovered inland, revealing the region's ...

The fossil exposure provides a unique view into the late Holocene epoch through a scientific assessment of the available marine invertebrate fossils (for example, molluscs, gastropods, bivalves) that ...

Melting Arctic ice on Baffin Island, Canada, has revealed ancient tundra plants. These well-preserved specimens are over ...