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Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life-largely thanks to continental ...

In the distant past, Earth sometimes froze entirely, causing ice ages, and rock weathering alone isn't responsible.

A newly discovered global "thermostat" is a momentous discovery, but don't hope for it to offset the human impacts of climate change.

China’s newly confirmed largest impact crater from the Holocene reveals rare geological evidence of a massive ...

Scientists verify China’s Jinlin crater in Guangdong as Earth’s largest Holocene impact site, measuring 900 meters wide and ...

Life on the planet ultimately recovered because weathering ... Drabon told Live Science. A 4.4 billion-year-old zircon from Jack Hills, Australia. Because zircons don't melt at mantle temperatures, ...

BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- China is transitioning from being a user of space technology to a major contributor to humanity's cosmic understanding, said Wang Chi, an academician of the Chinese ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites ...

The Jinlin impact crater in south China's Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans from 11,700 years ago to the present, the ...