The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

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A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on Earth in East Antarctica, dating back six million years.

To improve understanding of variation of Earth's rotation in the 4th--7th centuries CE, a research team analyzed Byzantine records from this period to identify total solar eclipses around the Eastern ...

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...

'Surviving Earth' will examine several mass extinctions over the life of the planet, as well as creatures who survived them. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor NBC is getting into the dinosaur ...