A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about Earth's most extreme ice ages. Using numerical ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of ...

Earth experienced several periods in its history when ice covered nearly the entire planet, known as snowball Earth events. A study at the Earth-Life Science Institute at Institute of Science Tokyo ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about ...

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about ...

A research team led by scientists at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, has completed the most extensive genetic ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

One fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas shipments typically pass through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on their ...

New geological analysis of river sands near Stonehenge has debunked the long-held theory that Ice Age glaciers transported the monument's massive stones. Scientists found no evidence of distant rocks ...

There is an area of reduced gravity under Antarctica — the so-called gravity hole. A new study has shown that it arose due to the slow movements of rocks in the depths of the Earth, which occurred ...