Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 15, 2024, 02:57pm EDT Sep 15, 2024, 03:21pm EDT The early ...

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and their international collaborators including Boise State ...

Looking toward the future is a deeply natural human habit. But when experts start using complex math to figure out exactly how many tomorrows we have left, the answers can get a little unsettling. A ...