Earth Science
Many factors — including climate change, overfishing or loss of food supply — can push a wild animal population to the brink of collapse. Ecologists...
Shaken, not stirred, is the essence of new research that's showing promise in creating the chemical reactions necessary for industries such as...
Research points to an abrupt and widespread climate shift in the Sahara 5,000 years ago.
As recently as 5,000 years ago, the Sahara — today a vast...
In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on...
Jena (Germany) The Earth is dynamic. What we perceive as solid ground beneath our feet, is in reality constantly changing. In the space of a year...
New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening," or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on...
A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have...
More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species, marking the end of the Triassic period...
There's little doubt — among scientists at any rate — that the climate has warmed since people began to release massive amounts greenhouse gases to...
Earth is the only known planet that holds water in massive quantities and in all three phase states. But the earthly, omnipresent compound water has...
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