Episodic Fire, Runoff and Deposition at the Palaeocene-Eocene Boundary
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By Collinson, M E; Steart, D C; Scott, A C; Glasspool, I J; Hooker, J J  Abstract:  Qualitative and quantitative coal petrological analyses have been undertaken on the laminated lignite at the base of the Cobham Lignite Bed, from Sealers Hill, Kent, England.
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By Daniel Howden Peru's glaciers are melting. High in the Andes, freak hailstorms and cold snaps are freezing llamas to death. In the north of Kenya, unprecedented droughts have driven herdsmen into deadly battles for the few water holes.
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Major earthquakes around the world since early last century:
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When did life begin? One evidential clue stems from the fossil records in Western Australia, although whether these layered sediments are biological or chemical has spawned a spirited debate. Oxford researcher, Nicola McLoughlin, describes some of the issues in contention.
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered what likely triggered the eruption of a &quot;supervolcano&quot; that coated much of the western half of the United States with ash fallout 760,000 years ago.
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Recent storms, droughts and heat waves are probably being caused by global warming, which means the effects of climate change are coming
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Description: Scientists discover fossils of a new species of early human on the Indonesian island of Flores. Like the Neanderthals, it is an alternate human line that disappeared.
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By Daniel Howden  Peru's glaciers are melting. High in the Andes, freak hailstorms and cold snaps are freezing llamas to death. In the north of Kenya, unprecedented droughts have driven herdsmen into deadly battles for the few water holes.
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Scientists unlock the rainfall history stored in tree rings and find evidence of long dry periods in the past that dwarf the current drought in the western United States. The research hints at another monster drought to come. By Stephen Leahy.
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Research released Thursday offers new evidence that global warming caused by massive and prolonged volcanic activity may have been the chief culprit in the biggest mass extinction in Earth's geologic history.
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.
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The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt nearly 100 million years earlier, scientists report on Wednesday.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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Mount St. Helens&#39; recent eruption may be replaying a scene straight from the geochemical drama that led to life on Earth. Besides ash and lava, most volcanoes
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Coastal storms battering the southern coast of England have sharply increased in intensity over the last century and a half, a possible consequence of global warming.
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much
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Allarme maltempo e preallarme per rischio idrogeologico in sette province della Lombardia. Sulla base delle ultime elaborazioni del Servizio meteorologico regionale, la Protezione civile della Lombardia ha