The first sea organisms suddenly vanished 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction - The Kotlin Crisis.

An El Niño event combined with other weather phenomena led to record level sea rise in African oceans during 2023 and 2024.

Plants changed the atmosphere, built soil and created ecosystems that allowed animals like us to thrive. But first they had ...

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world.

Sørvágsvatn, also called Leitisvatn, is the largest lake in the Faroe Islands. Viewed from a certain angle, one side appears ...

Explosions are reported on two more foreign tankers in the Persian Gulf killing at least one person, port authorities say.

Whether any mines had been laid in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28 is unclear. The Pentagon said 140 American service members had been wounded, eight severely, in the war.

Leticia Carvalho heads a global authority that’s been struggling to set rules for a decade. President Trump’s aggressive push on ocean mining makes her task more urgent. Leticia Carvalho, the head of ...

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The daily average 30-year fixed-mortgage rate dropped to 5.99 percent on Monday, the lowest level in more than two years with the exception of a few hours on January 9, when they were at the same ...