The official timekeepers of Earth history are in an uproar after a key scientific panel decided this week that the planet’s geologic timeline should not include a radical new chapter defined by ...

Geologic Timescale Explain that scientists also like to sort events in the order they have happened. Show the geologic timeline OK, that looks overwhelming at first! Let's break it down. First, see ...

What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago ...

The summer rainy season in New Mexico usually brings daily alerts about the potential for flooding around the arid state.

But any colorful changes will likely be far down the geologic timeline, leaving us with blue seas for now. Like this article?

The need for a geologic hydrogen wildcatter is growing as energy demand rises and efforts to reduce emissions continue.

The Anthropocene proposal got its start in 2009, when a working group was convened to investigate whether recent planetary changes merited a place on the geologic timeline.

Not the Anthropocene, according to geologists who rejected the idea of adding a new epoch to Earth’s official geological timeline. Ask your climate questions.

Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas An island eroding into the bay offers tantalizing clues about when and how humans first made their way into North America.

PARIS - A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant Anthropocene, or ‘human age’, its own distinct place in Earth’s geological timeline after disagreeing over when exactly the era ...

A scientific panel has picked Crawford Lake, Ontario, to represent the Anthropocene, a proposed, and hotly contested, new chapter in geologic time.

In different circumstances, the ocean could even turn red, brown or green again. But any colorful changes will likely be far down the geologic timeline, leaving us with blue seas for now.