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Scientists drilled only 200 meters into Antarctica and uncovered Earth's oldest ice with 6-million-year-old air trapped insideScientists have recovered 6-million-year-old ice from Antarctica. This ice contains air bubbles from Earth's ancient atmosphere. It offers ...
Rocks Hidden Beneath the Pacific May Hold a Secret Record of Earth Slowly CoolingGeoscientists are using ancient chert rocks from the Pacific's Shatsky Rise to understand Earth's thermal history. Oxygen isotopes within t...
How One Ocean Animal Quietly Lived for More Than Five CenturiesAn ocean quahog, Arctica islandica, has been confirmed as the oldest non-clonal animal, living for 507 years, predating the Roman Empire. S...
The Arctic Wasn’t Always Frozen: Fossils Reveal a Lost World of Forests, Rhinos and Nesting DinosaursFossil evidence reveals that the Arctic was once a warm, forested region supporting large mammals such as hornless rhinoceroses and dinosau...
66-Million-Year-Old Climate Shift After Dinosaurs ExplainedSixty-six million years ago, an asteroid strike and volcanic eruptions triggered a global climate catastrophe. Earth plunged into a deep fr...
IISc & Japanese scientists discover 600-million-year-old ocean water in HimalayasResearchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University have located droplets of water created during an ancient oce...
What created the continents, the landmasses that are homes to humans? New evidence points to giant asteroidsGiant impacts blast out huge volumes of material almost instantaneously.
NASA's Curiosity rover discovers carbon which may yield clues to ancient Mars: StudyOn Earth, a strongly carbon 13 depleted signature from a paleo surface would indicate past microbes consumed microbially produced methane. ...
Global ocean covered entire Earth 3.2 billion years ago"The history of life on Earth tracks available niches. If you've got a waterworld, a world covered by ocean, then dry niches are just not g...
An epochal point by a meghalayan stalagmiteThe prime minister’s 100-year timeframe is very farsighted indeed by those standards.
- Tiny fossil shells unveil details about ancient Earth's climate
- Oldest known fossil is 3.5 billion-year-old
New York, Dec 19 (IANS) An analysis of ancient fossil microorganisms indicates that life on Earth evolved very early on the planet's histor...
'Rusty' lunar rock suggests Moon's interior is dryThe question of the Moon's moistness matters because the amount of water and other volatile elements and compounds provide clues to the Moo...
Climate change redistributes global water resources: StudyRising temperatures worldwide are changing not only weather systems but also the distribution of water around the globe, thereby affecting ...
Oxygen-starved oceans delayed recovery after 'Great Dying'Global ecosystems collapsed as some 90 per cent of species perished in this Permian-Triassic extinction event 250 million years ago.
First Oxygen appeared on earth way earlier than we realizedA team of geochemists reports the discovery of rusty, iron-rich rock layers in sediments deposited on shallow ocean floors some 3.2 billion...
Ancient rock shows signs of water on MarsMars' atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide but contains some ozone, said Shaheen, who investigated the process of oxygen isotope exchange.
Tibetan plateau basin lost significant height: StudyThe Tibetan Plateau in south-central Asia, because of its size, elevation and impact on climate, is one of the world's greatest geological ...
- Cooling oceans helped biodiversity 500 mn yrs ago
A new study has revealed for the first time a link between a cooling climate and increasing biodiversity in ancient oceans 500 million year...
- Bombay hospital introduces ozone therapy for patients
In an effort to popularise the non-invasive and cost-effective complementary ozone therapy, Bombay Hospital has started the therapy for peo...