Earth feels permanent — but it isn’t. From climate collapse to asteroid impacts, extinction-level events are inevitable on a ...

This is also the only known period in Earth’s history where land plants faced a mass extinction-level event, leading to a dramatic “coal gap”—a time when no peat, and therefore no coal, formed due to ...

What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? The first thing that might come to mind is a meteorite crashing into the Earth. Assistant Professor Honami Sato, a geology researcher at the Faculty of ...

A collision with this rock would release the same kind of energy that a certain other asteroid did 66 million years ago, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and killing nearly everything on Earth. This ...