In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Our planet is no stranger to changes. Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number ...

In her debut, Portland-based science writer Laura Poppick elegantly makes the case that Earth's ancient geological history is ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

Interview with former Green Party MEP and lifelong co-operator Molly Scott Cato about the shifting UK political landscape ...

The now-former congresswoman says she’s sorry about all that, so here’s a refresher on how bad it actually was ...

They survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but something else sealed their fate just a few hundred thousand ...

How much does it matter where you are born, or whether you are heavy or light, if you are a house sparrow? Researcher Kenneth ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many ...

Scientists are uncovering surprising truths about what dinosaur meat might have tasted like, and which species you could have ...