A study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment reveals the existence of a 60-million-year cycle combining tectonics, biogeochemistry, and marine biodiversity. By ...

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Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.

Earth’s surface is the “living skin” of our planet – it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems. Over geological time, landscapes change as this surface evolves, regulating ...

Perhaps, in time, civilisation would grow back up, perhaps not. Think again about the Cretaceous. What captures the imagination is how it ended: in fire, tsunami and a deep, wintry darkness ...

Earth’s oxygen has varied dramatically over time – here’s how our data could help us spot alien life Published: October 14, 2022 2:35pm EDT Alex Krause , UCL , Benjamin J. W. Mills ...

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How did the Andes—the world's longest mountain range—reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of ...