Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover ...

Scientists now warn that rising sea levels and shifting climate patterns could, one day, reclaim these dry landscapes, bringing oceans back to places that haven’t seen water for millions of years. By ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

This is about three times as long ago as the earliest dinosaurs roamed—but still not long in the scheme of Earth's mind-bending 4.5 billion years of history. During the Cryogenian, our planet ...

In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts, which already cover a quarter of Earth. Human activities such as firewood gathering and the grazing of animals are also ...

Journey to Earth's greatest wildernesses - deserts and grasslands. Covering over 1/2 of our planet and home to the stars of the natural world, it’s here where nature puts on its most dramatic show.