The burning of fossil fuels is the primary driver of the climate crisis, accounting for over 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. The extensive scientific modeling of future harms and ...

A new study led by our Earth Sciences department has made a surprising discovery about a mysterious fossil from the Cambrian period — over 500 million years ago. The fossil, Shishania aculeata, was ...

questions some of the methodologies used to construct the new family tree but notes that the new placement makes sense as Deinosuchus fossils show an array of traits seen in alligators and ...

Photo by Hiroaki Aiba, Yui Takahashi and Kotaro Saito (2025) For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo ...

The Department of Justice filed claims against four states this week — Hawaii, Michigan, New York and Vermont — in a bid to halt their actions to hold fossil fuel companies liable for climate ...

Almost every day we hear from Federal Liberal and National Party politicians about how bad energy prices have gotten. According to their leader Peter Dutton, our electricity prices have ...

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New Zealand, 20 million years ago. These crustaceans, which stretched to nearly 10 ...

Rapidly phasing out fossil fuels and limiting energy consumption to tackle climate change is “a strategy doomed to fail” according to former UK prime minister Tony Blair. In the foreword of a ...

"The feeling you get when you find a fossil, even as a professional, never gets old. But when you find something you have never seen before, the elation can be overwhelming." The bone of the ...

The Guardian reports that “Blair has called for the government to change course on climate, suggesting a strategy that limits fossil fuels in the short term or encourages people to limit consumption ...

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This lineage of terrestrial crocs, called sebecids, lasted longer than previously believed, according to researchers who described fossils recently unearthed in the Dominican Republic that reveal ...