The “Boring Billion” is an informal description of a billion-year-period of Earth history (1.8 billion to 800 million years ago) where tectonics, climate, and biological evolution remained ...

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Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable, new research suggests.

People have always been curious about knowing if the Earth will actually become uninhabitable one day and if the conditions ...

Why it's incredible: The group of islands is the most remote inhabited location on Earth. Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean that is home to the world's most isolated ...

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A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...