Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

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

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

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...