The Permian period ended about 250 million years ago with the largest recorded mass extinction in Earth’s history, when a series of massive volcanic eruptions is believed to have triggered global ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 15, 2024, 02:57pm EDT Sep 15, 2024, 03:21pm EDT The early ...

PECOS COUNTY, Texas – Sharon Wilson trained her bulky, black camera on a thin, steel tower next to a natural gas compression station. The screen of her Optical Gas Imaging camera lit up with warm ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the heels of the COP27 climate summit, Scepter, Inc., an emerging company that uses global Earth- and air-based data to measure climate gases and air pollution in ...

Methane is escaping into the atmosphere from U.S. oil fields about four times faster than federal regulators calculate, according to data released Wednesday by the Environmental Defense Fund, with ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Editor's note: The on-air piece was produced by KVUE's Heikki Mustonen. On Sunday, May 16, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist David Goodrich finished his ...

The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile ...