Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond "nature's archive," other sources, ...

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

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

Crucially, the reconstruction has a consistent timeline which enables ... end to the icehouse period. Scientists previously thought that the Late Paleozoic ice age gradually waned away, but ...