Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.
During the Ice Age, massive glaciers covered large portions of the Northern Hemisphere, dramatically altering the distribution of plants and animals. Entire ecosystems shifted as species adapted to ...
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.
Now, far from the icy seas of Antarctica, what’s left of A23a is being eaten away by warmer waters. It’s in its death throes, ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating back to the late Ice Age, archaeologists say. In a ...
With ICE Map, Rice University students Jack Vu and Abby Manuel hope to help communities understand where immigration enforcement activity is happening and how it unfolds in real time. Left: Rice ...
The sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice age and as a means of social expression. When ...
Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...
Jack Vu and Abby Manuel had been part of a volunteer program teaching weekly computer and Spanish classes to kids in Houston’s East End for more than a year, when one day the kids stopped showing up.
Last spring, as ICE raids spread through Southeast Houston, Jack Vu watched fear and uncertainty ripple through the community he had long volunteered in. The heartbreaking reality was impossible to ...
James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...