ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEResearchers from the University of Aberdeen found that a large-scale plankton eradication after the Great Oxygenation Event acted as lubricants for rock slabs that paved the way for mountain and life formation.
New research recently showed that solar winds that interact with grains of dust carried on asteroids may have contributed to filling the oceans on Earth with water.
Scientists have recently found new hope from the striking footage of a coral spawning occurrence on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia as they, among those who had firsthand experience of the spawning said "it's like being in a reverse snowstorm."
Archaeologists in Peru uncover an 800-year-old rope-bound mummy in the Cajamarquilla excavation site suggesting the buried were of high status in the contemporary pre-Hispanic society.
Chinese researchers claim that they have finally unraveled what makes the Himalayas Tibetan plateau unique by using deep seismic reflection profiling to understand the finer details of the intercontinental collision.
Biogeoscientists have recently opened up new possibilities for life in the dark, at the bottom of the oceans of Earth, as well as in other places in the solar system.
Scientists have recently identified a dinosaur skeleton, specifically, a duck-billed dinosaur called Parrosaurus missouriensis which they claim belongs to the Hadrosauridae family.
It may sound unbelievable, but all forms in the ocean, from tiny krill to huge tuna, appear to abide by a mere mathematical law that associates an abundance of the organism to its body size.
Researchers conclude that there is a high 8% rise in Albatross divorce rates as warming waters and climate change forces males to fly further and longer for food.
A team of international researchers has concluded in their study that contrary to earlier conventions, the Arctic Ocean is warming since the early 1900s due to a phenomenon known as Atlantification.