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A 32-million-year-old fossil proves that Pacific kelp forests are far older than we thought.

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Over 350 million years ago something odd was going on with the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists now propose that the field was really weak, which ma....

The explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano is considered the greatest eruption on the planet in the last 30 years, according to reports. Geoscientists employing satellite data to monitor changes in the Earth's surface temperature were less surprised by the Tonga volcanic eruption than the rest of the world.

Most are aware that electrons are negatively charged particles that surround the nucleus of atoms and whose behaviour governs chemical interactions

Iceland Is The Tip of a Lost, Sunken Continent, Wild New Theory Suggests TOM METCALFE, LIVE SCIENCE 29 JULY 2021 Iceland may be the last exposed remnant of a nearly Texas-size continent – called Icelandia – that sank beneath the North Atlantic Ocean about 10 million years ago, according to a new theory proposed by an international team of geophysicists and geologists.   The theory goes against long-standing ideas about the formation of Iceland and the North Atlantic, but the researchers...

Credit: © Don E. Canfield/University of Southern Denmark The first photosynthetic oxygen-producing organisms on Earth were cyanobacteria. Their evolution dramatically changed the Earth allowing oxygen to accumulate into the atmosphere for the first time and further allowing the evolution of oxygen-utilizing organisms including eukaryotes. Eukaryotes include animals, but also algae, a broad group of photosynthetic oxygen-producing organisms that now dominate photosynthesis in the modern oceans....