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

Scientists have developed a new equation to investigate the possibility of past life on Venus, fueling our curiosity about ...

A new approach to estimating the likelihood of life on Venus has been proposed by researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, ...

Ancient microbes illustrate a particular kind of respiration in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to form acetic ...

An analysis of changes to global ecosystems has revealed that almost nowhere is untouched by the influence of humanity, with ...

Climate and Earth system modelling is the use of mathematical representations of key components and properties of the atmosphere, ocean and biosphere to construct computer models. These models ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

During this dramatic period of climate change about 252 million years ago, about 80 to 90 percent of all species on Earth were wiped out and the biosphere of the planet was completely altered.

Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow in geomicrobiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research primarily concerns the co-evolution of the Proterozoic biosphere (Earth’s ‘middle age,’ 2.5-0 ...

A conservation charity has said the appointment of the first official Isle of Man biosphere photographers has been designed to create a "lasting artistic legacy". Photographer Ciara Hardisty and ...