A new study shows that 50.4% of land on Earth needs to be protected to reverse biodiversity loss, halt climate change and prevent future pandemics, with Latin American countries poised to lead ...

Sprawl in the desert: urban sprawl spreading out from Las Vegas. A new study finds that to save life on Earth, society must confront human population and overconsumption of resources. Photo by ...

Life on earth is extraordinary which is intricately linked with our forests known to possess more than 80% of all land-based species. Our remarkable ecosystems allow us to eat, breath and live ...

First Life on Land? 440 million-year-old fungus fossils may be remnants of earliest land-dwelling organism ©iStock.com. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter.

While many paleobiologists now accept Knauth’s premise that simple, unicellular life forms existed on land during the Precambrian, others recoil from his more radical proposal that complex, ...

A new discovery pushes back the time for the emergence of microbial life on land by 580 million years and also bolsters a paradigm-shifting hypothesis that life began, not in the sea, but on land.

The transition of life from the oceans to land is one of the most remarkable events in the history of evolution. Around 450 million years ago, life on Earth made a dramatic leap from the water to ...

Evidence for the first land life is controversial, but the fossil record has a tendency to surprise. When did life first appear on land? The answer to this question — one of the most fundamental ...

To those who study the Bajo, there’s little question the culture is increasingly assimilating to life on land and is losing touch with its nomadic, seafaring past. Image Selling skipjack tuna.

If life began on land, then Mars, which was found to have a 3.65-billion-year-old hot spring deposits similar to those found in the Pilbara region of Australia, might be a good place to look. For ...