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Jules Hudson fears the government's changes to farmers' inheritance tax will affect rural life as we know it. Heading to the TV Choice Awards on Monday night, the Escape to the Country star issued a ...

Raised in the Lutheran church, Tycho was led to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, but his carefully ...

Shrove Tuesday, also commonly referred to as Pancake Day, is a celebration that’s observed the day before Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the first day of the Christian observance of Lent, a 40-day ...

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

For centuries, people have kept diaries documenting the ups and downs of local weather. Now, scientists have combed through a ...

Climatologists analyze various natural climate data repositories to understand Earth’s past. Glaciers, sediments, and pollen convene to form a kind of “nature’s archive” from which natural scientists ...

Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

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

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

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

People have been recording local climates for centuries, chronicling hot and cold periods as well as resulting floods, famines, and fatal diseases. Now, researchers have examined a wealth of historic ...