Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

The prevailing theory has been that volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps released massive amounts of carbon dioxide.

A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...

Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ago, contributing to ...

This week, a billionaire made a spacewalk, archaeologists found a new, isolated Neanderthal lineage and the James Webb Space ...

An undisclosed buyer will acquire assets in the Central Basin Platform, Texas and New Mexico Shelf, and Northwest Shelf.

U.S. oil production has surged since 2008, making the country a top energy producer. Political shifts could affect future ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating than the one ...