“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener ...

Recent breakthroughs in the study of ancient DNA are providing unprecedented insights into the ecosystems and human history ...

Welcome to July! I know it’s hot, but wasn’t it just last month we were grumbling about the gloom? Researchers say our bodies deal with high heat better after a period of acclimation, so try doing ...

Thousands of people walking and playing across the frozen River Thames. Soldiers on horseback capturing ships stuck in the ice. Indigenous populations using snowshoes to outfox English interlopers.

Hidden beneath the surface, a pristine underwater cave can preserve traces of vanished worlds with a clarity that dry land ...