Climate change and the developments it spurs carry the narrative of the Quaternary, the most recent 2.6 million years of Earth's history. Glaciers advance from the Poles and then retreat, carving ...

All industry is part of a chain that starts with primary industry: the production or extraction of raw materials, like agricultural products or mining; and secondary industry: the processing of ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

DR. J. S. LEE, the well-known Chinese geologist, has sent to the Editor of NATURE the proofs of a monograph entitled "Quaternary Glaciations in the Lushan Area, Central China" with a series of ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...