It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

The Earthquake of 1952 is a well-known natural disaster that caused widespread destruction in Kern County about 75 years ago, ...

Trace element pollution is a pressing issue in the field of environmental toxicology and public health, especially with the expansion of mining and mineral ...

The action actually is happening at quite a spectacular pace,” Walker says. “But because human lives are so short, we’re not ...

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...

A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

NASA research using Apollo lunar regolith data refines the Moon’s impact record and places limits on meteorite contributions to Earth’s water over geologic time.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...