Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth, ...

It is often seen as the scourge of modern society, littering our highways, byways and beaches. But now a new study argues that modern plastics are also a valuable archive documenting activities and ...

The field of paleoenvironmental geochemistry examines the chemical signatures preserved in Earth’s ancient rocks to reconstruct past environments and decipher the evolution of our planet’s surface ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...