When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

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

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land and in the oceans.

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb revealed that the object is expected to approach Earth on December 17, speeding through the solar ...

And now, in a triumph of cross-border collaboration, an international team, armed with a rich Chinese fossil record and ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...