The Chicxulub impact not only plunged Earth into an impact winter but also produced a dust blanket that later overheated the ...

New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world.

Urban ecologists have discovered over the past couple of decades that cities, long derided as ‘biological deserts,’ are often ...

A new study suggests the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also created a global dust cloud that trapped heat, turning ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a roughly 10-kilometre-wide asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, ...

Earth's mass extinctions and other disasters could be following a pattern. A scientist has claimed that Earth's orbit, ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has followed advice from IUCN, as the official advisor on nature, to inscribe seven new ...

The American bison’s scientific name is Bison bison bison. The two subspecies of American bison are not part of the “true” ...

On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Epoch Vault Bring life back to a world shattered by Earth’s greatest mass ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has issued a rebuke against widespread ‘AI doomsday’ warnings, dismissing catastrophic claims that artificial intelligence (AI) will destroy civilization or trigger mass ...

University of Miami scientists are working to save an endangered coral species from extinction by bringing them ashore.