Joshua Davies

Articles by: Joshua Davies

An illustration of the Earth as seen from the surface of the moon.

Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years

By Joshua Davies, Margriet Lantink published

Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise.

The Paraná basin in Brazil provides evidence that one of the world's largest super-eruptions did not cause a mass extinction.

Huge volcanic eruption didn’t cause climate change and mass extinction 140 million years ago

By Joshua Davies, Brenda Chung Rocha, Nicolas Greber published

Mass extinctions are times in Earth’s past when large proportions of life suddenly and catastrophically died.

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