In a new paper, an international team led by scientists from Charles University, Czechia, has brought evidence linking widespread release of methane (CH₄)—a strong greenhouse gas—from the Greenland ...

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

Melting Arctic ice on Baffin Island, Canada, has revealed ancient tundra plants. These well-preserved specimens are over 40,000 years old. Scientists found them in situ, meaning they were buried where ...

A new study reveals how Nile flooding sustained the Kush civilization for over a millennium by building fertile agricultural ...

Rice has always been a heat-loving plant, at home in the warm, wet landscapes of Asia. It spread with the first farmers, fed ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

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 ...

Recent satellite remote sensing surveys have identified 280 stone structures spread across the Atbai desert in Sudan. Twenty ...

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

A comprehensive new study shows that Europe’s landscapes have been shaped by grasslands and open woodlands for more than 20 ...

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 ...