Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

Join Si and friends as they search the Thames foreshore for various antiquities lost over millennia. To mudlark the Thames foreshore legally, a permit from the PLA is required. #mudlover #luckinthemuc ...

Lesson of history is that even minor changes in temperature can make significant differences to the climate and our ...

Nine-time Ice Age Trail hiker Jared Wildenradt shares his favorite spots on the trail Wildenradt says he finds bliss everywhere on the trail, but his top three segments are north of state Highway 64.

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They share favorite segments.

In the course of Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane argues compellingly the case for regarding rivers – and by implication, all other elements of the natural world – as living beings, with ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the most recent ice age built different types of hearths.

Here are three remarkable historical treasures that were discovered thanks to mudlarks who search the banks of London's River Thames.

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Dreams of a white Christmas were planted by Charles Dickens, Victorian mass media and the Little Ice Age, historians say.