A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, potentially jeopardising hundreds of millions of ...

The 9,000 gigatons of ice lost from glaciers since 1975 are roughly equivalent to "an ice block the size of Germany with the ...

A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals—an estimated 8,800 ...

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Targeted conservation actions are essential to prevent wildlife extinctions, but more efforts are needed to fully recover biodiversity, according to a ...

Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human ...