The formation of a sixth ocean, and the tectonic shifts that lie ahead, are proof that Earth is a dynamic, ever-evolving ...

Beneath nearly two million square miles of Pacific Ocean lies a landmass larger than Greenland—one that remained hidden from ...

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An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists. The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the ...

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

The evolution of modern birds was greatly shaped by the history of our planet's geography and climate. New research finds that birds arose in what is now South America around 90 million years ago, and ...

The Permian period ended about 250 million years ago with the largest recorded mass extinction in Earth’s history, when a series of massive volcanic eruptions is believed to have triggered global ...

“Native people are still here regardless of what the settler colonial state might try and say. You can uplift and amplify that ongoing relationship with the land here and now.” Climate change is a ...