Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

Earth's rich biodiversity, ranging from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountain peaks, has not always been as ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events recognised in the past 539 million years of our planet ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.  ...