The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

The scientists used their data to chart where and when plant species emerged or disappeared across Siberia and Alaska.

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Rising temperatures cause plants to leak more water, reducing their ability to absorb carbon and potentially turning them ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. A new study led by Professor Gemma Harvey from ...

The discovery of a new species in the Andean cloud forests of northern Peru has reinforced the vital role of citizen science ...

Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

Fossil evidence from North China indicates that certain ecosystems may have rebounded within just two million years after the ...

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Narrator: 4 and a half billion years ago, clouds of cosmic dust and gas which were orbiting the Sun collided into one another, creating the Earth, our planet, the home of mankind. It spins at 1000 ...

Earth Commission Report1 provides major new insights into the potential for the transgression of Earth-system boundaries ...