Geologists in Australia have uncovered a chilling discovery about Earth's ancient past, shedding light on a mystery that ...

A team of Earth scientists led by the Center for Marine Environmental Studies has identified the 1950s as the most likely ...

Within that epoch there was also a 40 million year span known as the Ordovician Impact Spike that saw the Earth fairly tattooed with meteors raining down from space. Most of the evidence for these ...

Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. They may be ...

Although Antarctica doesn’t have good soil, these mossy pioneer plants could create richer habitats that could be ripe for ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the earliest examples of a winged seed, shedding light on the origins of wind dispersal ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians.

The latest study proposes three candidates for the start of the Anthropocene, but argues that the 1950s was the most likely ...

Life on Earth has endured climates far hotter than the one people are now creating through planet-warming emissions. But humans evolved during the coldest epoch of the Phanerozoic, when global ...

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These important 17 elements often come from China and other countries. But feds are looking to create a domestic industry ...

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