For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...
Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere faces a finite lifespan of about 1.08 billion years before a sharp decline, according to a ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Earth's atmosphere, which is currently rich in oxygen, is predicted to undergo a drastic shift that could lead to the extinction of most life forms, including humans, scientists ...
Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.
Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one of Earth’s largest mass extinctions.
Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?