New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

When that material is transported into the oceans, it increases the carbon-to-phosphorus ratio of marine sediments. The ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...

On Monday, 484 employees of BrewDog were told in a 15-minute conference call that they were being made redundant.

A freedom-of-information release reveals formal advice that salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour should cease while approval is reconsidered under federal environmental laws. The government backed the ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first plants began spreading across Earth’s land. This major turning point helped ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Half a billion years after Earth’s first mass extinction, a quarry in China has cracked open a lost ocean world.