A team of environmental researchers, Earth scientists and pollution specialists at Nanjing University, the Chinese Academy of ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows microplastics are ...

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. Researchers ...