It happened before, and could happen again…. That's the message in a new study about the catastrophic collapse of Earth's tropical forests due to natural volcanic causes 252 million years ago. The ...

Introduction : going to Nevada -- ch. 1. Welcome to the revolution! -- ch. 2. The overlooked extinction -- ch. 3. The mother of all extinctions -- ch. 4. The misinterpreted extinction -- ch. 5. A new ...

These changes included a dramatic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, ocean acidification, global warming, and a decrease in oxygen levels in the oceans. Consequences: The Permian-Triassic ...

In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event—known as the Permian-Triassic Mass ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ rocketed, and ...

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

(CNN) — Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: ...

The Trump Administration has been undoing efforts of previous Administrations to stop worsening global warming with greenhouse gasses. I’m reminded of the Jonestown massacre in which Jim Jones led an ...

Evidence of global warming is most dramatic in the polar regions, where melting permafrost threatens polar bears and emperor penguins with extinction. Near the Arctic Circle, researchers are finding ...

The world’s supply of glacial ice is quickly approaching an alarming milestone, as the planet continues heating to disruptive new heights. In a striking study published this week in Nature Climate ...