As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on Earth.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

An algal bloom in South Australia has caused mass deaths of many species since March - now researchers warn that leafy and ...

Why Did The 'Great Dying' Last for Five Million Years? Science May Finally Have The Answer The Great Dying has remained a captivating topic for experts. However, some aspects of this event remain ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or “The Great Dying,” this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of marine ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by Hollywood.

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass ...

Enormous numbers of marine and land-based plants and animals died, ecosystems collapsed and oceans acidified. What has been less clear, however, is why it got so hot and why “super greenhouse” ...