history

600 years of tree rings reveal past climate extremes in California

An interdisciplinary collaboration used 600 years of tree rings from the San Joaquin Valley to reconstruct plausible daily records of…

11 months ago

How Old is the Water We Drink?

Photo: Cozine/Shutterstock Back in 2016, geologists from the University of Toronto announced they had discovered water at the bottom of…

1 year ago

600,000 years of history, and Tulare Lake isn’t done yet

'The lake has a mystique' Much like the shifting shorelines and water levels of the lake itself, the history of…

1 year ago

The Wild Ones

People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado…

2 years ago

The Complex And Surprising History Of Humanity And Water

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Giulio Boccaletti about his new book Water: A Biography, which takes readers through the…

3 years ago