Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.
It is often seen as the scourge of modern society, littering our highways, byways and beaches. But now a new study argues that modern plastics are also a valuable archive documenting activities and ...
Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth, ...
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Earth’s oldest known material was born before Earth existed
Long before Earth formed, tiny mineral grains were already drifting through space, forged in the final breaths of dying stars ...
Scientists are raising alarm bells as Earth’s rotation speeds up unexpectedly, leading to what may soon be the shortest day in recorded history. According to Graham Jones, an astrophysicist at the ...
Australia’s ancient rocks are acting like natural clocks, revealing how landscapes changed over billions of years through ...
Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith of ...
New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is. Some 4 billion ...
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