And this might have changed Earth’s climate and geological history forever. Around 466 million years ago, during a period ...

Today, Earth’s magnetic field acts as a safety blanket, shielding the planet from dangerous solar wind. Without the protection of our magnetosphere, you, me and almost every other living thing ...

While scientists understand how CO 2 affects the climate today, its role in shaping Earth’s climate millions of years ago has been harder to uncover. Much of this information on CO 2 is hidden in ...

Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an ...

Geographical exploration is a type of quest, the objective being to discover remote lands. One major era, in the history of ...

Bezos is betting a lot of money on a potential solution to Earth's natural resource deficiencies that's reminiscent of science fiction: He's spent billions per year for the past two decades to ...

Now, a new study has helped illuminate this gap by detailing just how slowly life evolved during that period. Roughly 2.5 billion years ago, Earth entered the Proterozoic Eon, the third of its four ...