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The new finds help scientists reconstruct ancient sea levels, water temperatures, and ecosystems from millions of years ago.

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Environmentalist and human rights leader Kumi Naidoo speaks about climate justice and violence in Gaza and Sudan.

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His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

“It’s probably the most complete human fossil ever discovered,” Costantino Buzi of the University of Perugia told New ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

The international community could agree to a universal tariff that would be imposed on nations that fail to cut greenhouse emissions by a specified amount.

The findings in Spitsbergen demonstrate that marine ecosystems rebounded rapidly after the end-Permian mass extinction, ...

MICROSCOPIC magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal “GPS system” for an ancient marine creature that used Earth’s magnetic field to navigate ...