Fire as organizing principle. Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation, about 11,500 years ago.Generally, these changes have made landscapes more fire ...

A new study reveals that humans were extensively using fire to modify landscapes as far back as 50,000 years ago. That’s at ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

Beneath the tranquil waters of Indonesia’s Lake Toba lies one of the most colossal and dangerous supervolcanoes on Earth, capable of triggering super eruptions with global climatic consequences ...

- We know that Mono Lake is at least 760,000 years old because of some volcanic sediment from an eruption that happened at that time that we were able to see in the center of the lake, on the island.

In fact, for billions of years of the Earth's history, there wasn't any fire either. It took billions of years before the conditions for fire were possible, with the planet's first inhabitants ...