Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

An annual event to demonstrate support for environmental protection first held in 1970, Earth Day on April 22 won’t go ...

Bacteria used oxygen far earlier than expected, reshaping views on early life, evolution, and photosynthesis origins.

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s history. By comparison, the entire history of the rise and evolution of ...

Sitting atop the land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, located on the eastern hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains and about five ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in ... Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them ...

Our Changing Planet is an ambitious natural history series exploring the issues facing the planet’s most threatened ...

A new study led by scientists in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University provides the first comprehensive ... of water stored in Earth's plants and the amount of time ...

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even presented strong evidence supporting this idea. But new research is turning that ...