Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

The Earth's mass can now be expressed as six ronnagrams after scientists voted to add new metric prefixes - Copyright PIB/AFP - The Earth's mass can now be expressed ...

The new study discussing the threat was published in the journal Biological Reviews. Five major extinction events have been identified in the history of life on Earth. The five events are the ...

A prestigious committee of modern geologists has issued the scientific verdict on the academic debate over Holocene vs. Anthropocene. They declare that Gaia, our beloved Earth, remains in the ...

This is part 1 of a three-part series that traces the origins of the Anthropocene - the current geological epoch that speaks bluntly to humanity's impact on the environment - and the unfolding 'Sixth ...