SAN FRANCISCO — Humans drive trillions of miles in cars, clear-cut forests for agriculture and create vast landfills teeming with tin cans, soda bottles and other detritus of industrialization.

The way the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sees it, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is “championing awareness of Earth’s geologic eras,” according to a department press release. This ...

This story originally appeared on Fusion and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The 1950s. To many Americans, the decade signifies a sort of "Pleasantville"-era jam packed ...

Humans drive trillions of miles in cars, clear-cut forests for agriculture and create vast landfills teeming with tin cans, soda bottles and other detritus of industrialization. There's no doubt that ...

Standing on the bank of the Alabama River last week, a few miles downstream from the Claiborne Dam, paleontologist Martin Becker held a small but perfectly preserved snail fossil just plucked from the ...

This image is taken from the Geologic Time Viewer, a project presented last week at MIT, which shows how materials created over millions of years in geologic time are now a part of our everyday lives.