Future climate analogs for the years 2020, 2050, 2100 and 2200 according to three well-established models. If greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, the study says, the climate will continue to warm until it begins to resemble the Eocene in 2100. Credit: Courtesy of the authors

Humans may be reversing the climate clock, by 50 million years

Transportable Array station P19K is one of the closest stations to the Iniskin earthquake origin. Solar panels power the station, and the seismometer is buried in a specially drilled borehole to insulate it from surface noise. Photo taken in 2017 during a service site visit by Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS). IRIS manages the Transportable Array station installation and maintenance. Credit: Doug Bloomquist, IRIS

Alaska earthquakes offer new insight into improving hazard assessment

The complex history of Earth’s magnetic reversals

Volgatitan simbirskiensis anterior caudal vertebra

Scientists find new giant dinosaur

Maohokite

Scientists discover possible mantle mineral

This illustration shows the percentage of marine animals that went extinct at the end of the Permian era by latitude, from the model (black line) and from the fossil record (blue dots). A greater percentage of marine animals survived in the tropics than at the poles. The color of the water shows the temperature change, with red being most severe warming and yellow less warming. At the top is the supercontinent Pangaea, with massive volcanic eruptions emitting carbon dioxide. The images below the line represent some of the 96 percent of marine species that died during the event. Includes fossil drawings by Ernst Haeckel/Wikimedia; Blue crab photo by Wendy Kaveney/Flickr; Atlantic cod photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld/Wikimedia; Chambered nautilus photo by ©2010 John White/CalPhotos. Credit: Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch/University of Washington

Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping...

A fossil trilobite with its complex eye

Enhancing our vision of the past

Spectacular soft-tissue fossil

Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage

Magma Chamber

Volcanoes fed by ‘mush’ reservoirs rather than molten magma chambers

Yellowstone National Park

A microbe’s membrane helps it survive extreme environments

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