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

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

Multicellular plants, arthropods, mollusks, dinosaurs, primates and more emerged during this period, and many of these life-forms have experienced significant temperature extremes on Earth.

Very few places on Earth are completely lifeless. No matter how extreme the conditions, there is almost always something that has evolved to exploit them. Even though ice rips apart cell membranes ...

Hang son Doong, Vietnam, one of the largest caves on Earth. It is a portal to an extreme world, two hundred metres deep underground. Plants can only survive in this spot because light streams ...

The Solar System is a vast and varied landscape offering an array of planetary and moonscape phenomena unlike anything found ...

Extreme weather disrupts nature's timing, affecting plants, insects, and ecosystems by altering phenological patterns.

If you think Earth has some bad weather ... So if the lack of oxygen and extreme temperatures don't kill you, the radiation certainly will. This isn't as much of a problem on Venus, however.

For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn't always that way – and scientists have predicted that, in the future, the atmosphere will revert back to one that's rich ...

Because Earth is tilted far enough on its axis that ... And that's where a more extreme tilt starts to cause problems. Right now, during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere, places far north ...

Our local lenders are all treasure troves of discovery but we’ve decided to explore some of the world’s most extreme places to borrow a book. Think reading rooms which double as Hollywood ...