Researchers have recovered what has been found to be the world’s oldest DNA from sediments in Northern Greenland, with the two million-year-old genetic fragments revealing a landscape from a time when the now-barren Arctic landscape was lush with a variety of flora and fauna. Beating the previous record for ancientread more
After decades of slumber, the world’s largest active volcano has awakened, with a new eruption starting at the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa late last month; and although there is no danger of an imminent eruption from the caldera at Yellowstone, it has been discovered that there is more magmaread more
The powerful earthquake that rocked central Mexico on September 19 caused a phenomenon dubbed a “desert tsunami” almost 3,000 kilometers north of the epicenter in the U.S. state of Nevada. The magnitude 7.7 earthquake that rocked central Mexico on September 19 caused an effect christened a ‘desert tsunami’ thousands of kilometers northread more
Up to a billion years worth of history is missing from the Earth’s geological record, with long spans of ancient rock strata having been seemingly erased from their subterranean resting places. Although the cause behind the missing layers has been the source of debate amongst scientists for over a century,read more