Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

A new study led by Virginia Tech has found that, after the last global ice age, Earth went through a dramatic and rapid ...

The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.

Eating fewer burgers and steaks could pay big dividends for Mother Earth, and human health, by combatting climate ch ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

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"It brings us into the realm of what humans can grasp," researcher Dennis Kent said. "These events happened in the span of a lifetime." ...