Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
Earth's greatest mass extinction 250 million years ago shows what happens when El Niño gets out of control
Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, ...
Largest Mass Extinction In Earth’s History Linked To Climate Chaos
A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...
The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why
Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...
Study charts how Earth's global temperature has drastically changed over the past 485 million years, driven by CO₂
A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...
'Bennu, Apophis and more': List of NASA's 'Most Wanted' asteroids that could threaten Earth
About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...
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Over nearly half a billion years, Earth's global temperature has changed drastically, driven by carbon dioxide
A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...
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Asteroid Extinction: What Is Stopping Us from Going the Way of the Dinosaurs?
Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...
3,000 Species Face Extinction: Earth’s Natural Disasters Are Accelerating Biodiversity Loss
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions elevate the extinction risk for mammals, ...
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Cataclysmic events caused mass extinctions during Earth's early evolution
Earth’s evolution has been shaped by a series of severe environmental crises that occurred millions of years ago, profoundly ...
Huge Variations in Earth's Temperature Over Last Half-Billion Years
A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's ...
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How El Nino and mega ocean warming caused the greatest-ever mass extinction
Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...