A cliff that changed our understanding of time

Technology is transforming the relationship between people and the oceans

Scotland’s floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be

Did plants cause one of Earth’s great extinctions?

Clues are hard to come by when you’re trying to look back to a time when the continents clumped together like a closed fist. But geologists have found evidence that plants, the most gentle of organisms, may have helped kill most of the life in the oceans 374 million years ago.