For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

For the first time, scientists have observed how a subducting oceanic plate actively breaks apart into fragments, forming ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

Global scientists warn that humanity is on the verge of crossing irreversible climate thresholds, with coral reefs already at their tipping point and polar ice sheets possibly beyond recovery. The ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet ...

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Earth's 'Boring Billion' created the conditions for complex life to exist, report scientists at the universities of Sydney ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

New research unexpectedly identified the North American ice sheets, not the Antarctic ones, as the main cause of a prehistoric event of sea-level surge.