Fossil pollen and charcoal deposits taken from the Nile Delta have preserved a record of climate catastrophes in ancient Egypt. Researchers from the US Geological Survey and the University of Pennsylvania found less wetland pollen and more charcoal in several different layers of the sediment cores, indicating times of drought in four different periods. The […]

The SS Terra Nova has been found off the southern coast of Greenland by a crew from the U.S.-based Schmidt Ocean Institute, which was testing its acoustic sonar on the rugged seafloor topography of that area. The three-masted ship was built in 1884, and was best known for carrying British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his […]