When the Black Death depopulated Europe, abandoned farmland reverted to forest—and plant diversity declined. The lesson may complicate modern calls to simply “let nature take over.” ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...

Climate disasters that kill large numbers of people have never been short, single events. They are almost always ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

The pop culture star, advocate and entrepreneur Paris Hilton launched an initiative Monday to support female small-business owners impacted by disasters, a nationwide expansion of her philanthropic ...

An alleged screenshot of a 2006 4chan post displayed a user's warning about a dark future, predicting pandemics and World War ...

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are ...

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