Demise of Dinosaurs May Serve as a Guide for Today

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jun 17, 2018 A celestial traffic accident 65 million years ago might provide a lesson about the climate damage now being done by humanity. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Oman’s Rocks Could Help the Fight Against Climate Change

By Ilana Novick Apr 27, 2018 They absorb harmful carbon dioxide, turning it into stone. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Long-Lasting Civilization May Be a Pipe Dream

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Apr 19, 2018 Astrobiology—the search for alien life—suggests a lesson for us here on earth: Civilization may not be sustainable over geological eras but, rather, self-destroying. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Path to a New Earthly Epoch

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Nov 25, 2017 Our planet has entered the Anthropocene, some scientists argue—a new geologic era of human modification of the natural world. The latest evidence? Roads. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Researchers Figure Out When Humans First Altered the Planet’s Geology

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jun 12, 2017 Stone Age humans changed a landscape. Then time buried the evidence, until now. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

GOP Science

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They Just Found $1 Trillion in Afghanistan

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2010 Afghanistan was thought to be a hardscrabble wasteland good for producing little more than opium -- that is until a gang of American geologists working from old Soviet maps uncovered a variety of mineral deposits thought to be rich enough to radically alter our whole concept of Afghanistan and the war to control it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

John Mack Faragher on the ‘Hard Road West’

John Mack Faragher / Truthdig Nov 23, 2007 One of the most gifted historians of the American West takes a close look at the remarkable tale of triumph and tragedy that Keith Meldahl recounts in his dramatic story of the largest overland migration since the Crusades, as well as the equally compelling epic of the geology of the harsh and sublime Western landscape. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Space Object Implicated in Widespread Illness

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2007 Roughly 600 Peruvian townspeople are suffering a variety of ailments, from headaches to vomiting, after visiting the crash site of a mysterious fireball that fell from the heavens. Scientists are en route to analyze the object, which they believe is simply a meteorite. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Indonesian Earthquake Kills 70

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2007 The Indonesian island of Sumatra was slammed by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday, followed shortly by a 6.0 aftershock. The event was felt in Malaysia and Singapore, hundreds of miles away. Authorities were scrambling to cope with downed communication lines, overwhelmed hospitals and shattered buildings. A government official put the death toll at 70 so far. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )