Global use of fossil fuels rose to a new record last year, releasing even more greenhouse gases. Humanity is 'hurtling toward climate chaos,' scientists warn.

COP30 is the 30th annual UN climate meeting, where governments discuss how to limit and prepare for further climate change. COP stands for "Conference of the Parties". "Parties" refers to the nearly 200 countries that signed up to the original UN climate agreement in 1992.

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity equal to that of early Homo species. P. boisei lacked the highly adaptive wrist structure found in Neanderthals and later humans—but the species did boast a powerful, gorilla-like grasp.

Countries pledged just a 10 percent emissions cut; breaching 1.5°C warming is now “inevitable,” said António Guterres.

Millions of years ago, a pony-sized, hornless rhino wandered through the woods and munched on leaves in what is now northern Nunavut. A new study identities it as a new species, and offers an intriguing explanation for how it got there.

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 million years old. Today on the show, Regina G. Barber speaks with paleontologists Karma Nanglu and Danielle de Carle about

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Did you know that New Mexico has a state fossil? It is the Coelophysis (see-low-FYS-iss). (Artist rendition of Coelophysis, Courtesy Adobe Stock) The Coelophysis remains were found in New Mexico in 1881 and classified in 1889 by Edward D.

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who covet them, the present is in some ways much more complicated.

The 10-week training programme is shaped around People & Planet’s Fossil Free and Divest Borders campaigns, which aim to get all UK universities to divest from (stop investing in) the fossil fuel and border industries. Why the fossil fuel industry?