The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...
Earth’s continents are not fixed in place. They drift, collide, and break apart over hundreds of millions of years, and new ...
In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.
Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...
Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere, the very thing that allows complex life to exist, may not last forever. Coupled biogeochemistry and climate simulations estimate that the planet’s breathable air could ...