A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world—and this could ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

“It’s almost like you can feel that the land is in pain, and you are carrying that pain in your body as well.” The destruction of parts of Ritidian Point weigh heavily on her and other Chamorro.

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