Geomancy and environmental determinism, respectively Eastern and Western concepts which accord "nature" a primary role in shaping human life, show striking similarities and differences. Both ...

For decades, scholars who studied Mississippian culture — a vast network of Native American settlements from Florida to Minnesota from roughly 800 AD to 1500 — accepted the theory that these societies ...

Reviewed Work: The Abbé Du Bos. His Advocacy of the Theory of Climate: A Precursor of Johann Gottfried Herder by Armin Hajman Koller, Johann Gottfried Herder As the oldest journal in the United States ...

Which human activities are changing our climate, and does climate change constitute a major problem? We will investigate these questions through an introduction to climate processes and an exploration ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...