A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

Host Eleanor Higgs discusses Earth’s previous mass extinctions with palaeontologist Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol, and how we can use this history as a basis to ...

There no getting away from the fact that we are at a crisis point with the health of our planet. Habitat destruction, pollution, and global warming have lead to the 6th mass extinct event. The ...

Jellyfish are among Earth’s most ancient and resilient inhabitants, silently drifting through our oceans for over 650 million years. While dinosaurs, trilobites, and countless other species have ...