Billions of years ago, our planet did not have the deep blue oceans we admire today. Instead, they were actually […] ...

Tracey Seaward is one of the producers of The Herds, an innovative performance art project that uses puppets to highlight the ...

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Their findings are published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Stalagmites—rock formations that grow upward from cave floors—serve as valuable records of past climate conditions. Their formation ...

Palaeontologist Riley Black is back with a thrilling guide to how animals and plants co-evolved over millennia ...

A team of astrophysicists, geoscientists, chemists and life scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan has found evidence that billions of years ago, the Earth's oceans were green.

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Related: Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years ago The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets make up more than 70% of Earth's ...

McCauley said the astronaut doodle will return to Earth at some point after it's made a full orbit. "They're going to mule down that actual piece of paper that was printed out and send it back to ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, our planet might have looked green from a distance, instead of the pale blue dot we know today. Earth’s green period, which lasted from around 3 billion ...

Often, the speaker’s offering is oracular: “Take my word for it—this/ Machinery of salt and earth/ is slowly writhing.” Jolts of wit and outright self-mockery temper the book’s loftier ...