Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond "nature's archive," other sources, ...

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

Droughts, extreme heat and destructive flooding plagued the region in the sixteenth century, historical documents show.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Local natural history group Rhayader by Nature is delighted to present a talk by a leading international palaeontologist this ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...