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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

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.

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.