In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a new study based on the sediment core from Lake Chaohu in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River presents the evolution histories of ...

C. Russell Stafford, Ronald L. Richards and C. Michael Anslinger A shift in Archaic foraging to a largely logistic collector strategy by the middle Holocene is indicated by the presence of rock-filled ...

With rising global temperatures, a major concern is that fresh water from melting glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet will slow down global oceanic circulation patterns, in particular the North ...

A classic California view — fog rising from the Pacific Ocean as seen from Mount Tamalpais. (Getty Images) People often say things like Phoenix has always been dry; Seattle has always been wet; and ...

The beginning of agriculture is one of the most significant events in human history. The origin and spread of agriculture accelerated the development of human society and economy and fundamentally ...

The Earth is now in a new geological age. The International Union of Geological Sciences said that this age, dubbed the Meghalayan, started 4,250 years ago when drought struck the planet. We are ...