Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers ...

Climate change is accelerating continental rifting, the geological process where landmasses slowly pull apart. According to a ...

Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable, ...

The Meghalayan Age marks the most recent subdivision of the Holocene Epoch, which began approximately 11,700 years ago, ...