What we think of as the classic West Coast climate began just about 4,000 years ago, finds a study on climate trends of the Holocene era. People often say things like Phoenix has always been dry; ...

New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in research, published today [27 Jan] in Nature Ecology & Evolution, by an international team, led by Professor ...

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 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 23 (June 8, 2021), pp. 1-7 (7 pages) The greening of the Sahara, associated with the African Humid Period ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed, vegetation ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

Scientists tracking the health of the planet now say humanity has pushed Earth beyond seven of the nine environmental limits that kept conditions stable for thousands of years. The warning is not ...

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 ...