The Late Holocene starts about 4,250 years ago, during a massive drought that struck Eurasia and destroyed several ancient societies.

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

Scientists have resolved a controversial but key climate change mystery, bolstering climate models and confirming that Earth is hotter than it's been in at least 12,000 years, and perhaps even the ...

Several mechanisms have been proposed for this ‘anomalous’ late Holocene trend. First, that emissions from circum-Arctic wetlands increased in a slow response to warmer, stable Holocene ...

Consensus attributes the switch, known as the late Holocene rainforest crisis (LHRC), to a drying climate, but an anthropogenic origin has also been proposed.

They kept referring to the remarkably rapid environmental changes of the late Holocene. Exasperated, Crutzen finally broke into the discussion: “We aren’t in the Holocene anymore, ...

Middle-late Holocene vegetation history, climate change and human activity in eastern China revealed by lake sediment in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Science China Press. Journal ...

The eruption of Italy’s Mount Etna reminded the world how sudden and unpredictable volcanoes can be. Check out the most ...

More information: Brenda L. Hall et al, Widespread southern elephant seal occupation of the Victoria land coast implies a warmer-than-present Ross Sea in the mid-to-late Holocene, Quaternary ...

Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson, Cultural Responses to a Late Holocene Climatic Oscillation in the Mariana Islands, Micronesia: Lessons from the Past, Human Ecology Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Special Issue: ...

Late-Holocene human footprints, at least 2,000 years old, in volcanic ash and mud in Nicaragua. The Anthropocene could mark an official end to the 11,700-year-old Holocene Epoch.