New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

The Director of Forestry at the Federal Ministry of Environment, Dr Moses Ama has disclosed that only 15 per cent of the world's land mass and 7 ... at least 30% of the Earth's land and sea ...

unstable resource availability on land. The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked by the loss of as many as 90% of species. A key line of research ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction ... Forty percent of the planet’s land is devoted to human food production, up from 7 percent in 1700 [3]. Fifty percent of the planet’s land ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions ... that could cause a mass extinction. During the Devonian geological era, life thrived on land for the first time ...