Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world. It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex. Researchers are constantly ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Lakshadweep is often hailed as India's Coral Island. Learn about its unique formation as an archipelago of true coral atolls, ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...

Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.