What Brings the Pacific Back to Life After El Niño?
Scientists have long understood why El Niño reduces microscopic ocean life. Explaining the recovery has proved more difficult.
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Paleontology, ecology, and climate change. We explore Earth’s deep past to understand today’s crises. From mass extinctions to modern ecosystems, we turn complex science into human stories—linking ancient shifts to our future on a changing planet
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How Did Climate Shape the World Behind The Odyssey?
New climate research explores how gradual drying and natural variability may have increased pressure on eastern Mediterranean societies near the end of the Bronze Age
What Was Happening to the Climate Behind The Odyssey?
What drought can reveal about the real Bronze Age societies behind Homer’s legendary world
How Colombia Became One of the Most Biodiverse Places on Earth
The geological story behind the Andes, the Amazon, and one of Earth’s richest ecosystems
Why Did Earth’s Ice Ages Change About a Million Years Ago?
Scientists may have found a clue in the Arctic Ocean
How Long Could Life Survive Without Sunlight?
The answer may help explain why some species survived the asteroid that ended the Age of Dinosaurs
Did the Extinction That Launched the Dinosaurs Start Millions of Years Earlier?
New evidence suggests the oceans were already changing long before the end-Triassic mass extinction.
Mountains Have Survived Climate Change Before. Can They Do It Again?
What Fossil Pollen and Mountain Ecosystems Reveal About Life on a Warming Planet
What If Coral Reefs Store More Carbon Than We Thought?
The debate over whether reefs are carbon sinks may have missed the bigger picture
How Did Tiny Mammals Survive the Arctic During the Age of Dinosaurs?
What fossil teeth reveal about survival near the North Pole 73 million years ago