Earth's rich biodiversity, ranging from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountain peaks, has not always been as ...

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

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

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

A new international study led by the University of Leeds and the China University of Geosciences has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s worst extinction event (about 252 ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ rocketed, and ...

Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

In an era when Earth is facing the threat of increased deforestation, a new research has given a warning about the importance ...

New fossil evidence has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during the Earth’s most devastating extinction event ...