Buried half a kilometre underground, Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility is the ultimate test of Israeli air power ...

The United States is bracing for a major seismic event known as “The Big One,” a devastating earthquake that experts warn could strike within the next 50 years. The challenge? Scientists still don’t ...

The country is preparing for a seismic disaster that has been dubbed "The Big One". The earthquake of the century could become a reality in 50 years... The problem? Scientists don’t know exactly when ...

It draws from a geological time capsule of fossil reef cores, extracted from the seabed under the Great Barrier Reef. The findings suggest rapid sea level rise in isolation did not spell the end ...

Fossilisation is the process by which organic materials like plants, animals, and other life forms, are preserved in the Earth’s crust over geological time. Fos E-PAPER ...

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So much so, in fact, that it has become widely accepted that the Anthropocene – the geological epoch dominated by human activity – is already set in stone on the geological time scale ...

A proposal to codify a new geological epoch based on humanity's influence on Earth has been rejected. It means "the Anthropocene" will not be added to the chronostratigraphic chart featured in ...

Even if the Anthropocene does not yet have an official place on the geologic time scale, the term will “continue to be used not only by earth and environmental scientists, but also by social ...

For instance, a committee within the International Union of Geological Sciences recently rejected a proposal to christen a new age in the venerable Geologic Time Scale. We are currently (and still ...