About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least ...

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar ... six times the total energy of all the world's power plants. The discovery of this massive feature comes courtesy ...

This prospect raises concerns that the pumice pebbles could affect the operations of nuclear power plants, which take in seawater to cool reactors. “When a submarine volcano erupts, a nuclear po ...

Ormat Technologies owns a 63 percent stake in the Puna plant, which supplies 25 percent of the island’s electricity. (JTA) — Lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has reached a geothermal ...