A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick have extracted ancient DNA from sediment cores beneath the North Sea, detecting ...

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

Thousands of years before the North Sea flooded the region, a vast landscape known as Doggerland once connected Britain to ...

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

European forests are increasingly turning brown in the course of hot, dry summers. In the scorching summer of 2022, Europe experienced more trees turning brown than ever, with 37% of temperate and ...

A new study shows that most native European temperate forest plants are adapted to semi-open, light-filled woodlands – formed over millions of years by the influence of large, free-ranging herbivores ...