Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

Professor Vincent Gauci writes about how methane analysis gives us clues about when humans first started to have a pronounced ...

A precise geological feature, dating back to the 1950s, could mark the beginning of a new epoch. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A searing heat-wave has descended upon Europe with a vengeance ~ and well before its usual time. Wildfires in Turkey have ...

Despite formal rejection as a geological epoch, it’s widely understood within academic research as useful shorthand for the age of human interference in the Earth system.

Hitan, sits tucked in the Egyptian Sahara. It is scattered with fossilised whale skeletons, many dating back over 40 million ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals rather than the cliffs behin ...

Science is under attack throughout the world. Meanwhile, there’s substantial scientific evidence that the planetary system is ...

Earth's current climate is considered an "icehouse climate" due to the existence of polar ice caps. This is important because previous icehouse ...

Today, there is as much CO₂ in the atmosphere as during a geological epoch known as the mid-Pliocene, more than 3 million years ago.