The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown ...

A team led by Prof. Zheng Tianlu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), has ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

Shanxi province in northern China is the country’s largest coal producer, leaving its coal-reliant economy and workers particularly exposed to the nation’s pledge to transition away from fossil fuels.

The research, led by scientists at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, analyzed ...

A study led by scientists from China, Germany, Britain and Madagascar focused on four oyster fossils from Madagascar and the ...

This year, the teams will be trekking across China, Nepal and India. The pairs will travel their way through towns, cities ...

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

It’s cheap and healthy. It’s the world’s most-preferred land-based meat. Turns out, it’s a good climate trade-off too. The ...

“Ancient climate change forced a clear shift in marine top predators,” Fischer says. Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S.