The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

For 162 million years, they lived through climate swings, continental shifts, volcanic eruptions, and a mass extinction ... to collect fin clips to chart hatchery genetics.

The Trump administration is eliminating most of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s workforce before folding the ...

Prologue: unfolding climate catastrophe I watched the discussion about the “unfolding environmental disaster” (climate chaos) ...

President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 founded the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey to provide nautical charts to the maritime ... marine wildlife safe from extinction to studying the health of the ...

Tip: Click the ‘Advanced’ button below the chart to access technical indicators and oscillators ... a consequence of volcanic activity that is thought to be the cause of the Permian mass extinction.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.