How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...

The authors also found evidence of w-shaped flood channels using seismic data and developed computer models to simulate how ...

The ages of some of the rocks of these ... rocks which “mark the beginning of the following era contain sediments testifying to an earth surface on which air and water played their parts ...

In all, this ice age lasted around 100 million years ... Our reconstruction showed that for part of this era the Earth’s atmosphere sustained relatively low CO₂ (about 330 parts per million ...

New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years.It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths ...

The Precambrian era is, as far as we can tell, the earliest years of Earth’s existence. This geological period was named after the Ediacara ... Ediacaran animals arose at the end of an ice age and ...

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet – using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Dale Jamieson highlights many of the problems we face—environmental, human, and nonhuman alike—and offers workable solutions ...

Milankovitch’s theory suggested Earth should be just beginning to head into its next ice age cycle. The surface temperature data gathered by Mitchell seemed to agree; the record showed that Earth ...