Fans of dinosaurs are familiar with the Triassic period. It ran for around 50 million years from a mass extinction of species at the end of the Permian until the dawn of the Jurassic some 200 million years ago. The Triassic featured some pretty cool dinosaurs and giant crocs, and it was a seminal period…

Animals that go extinct in the wild rarely get a second chance at returning to their former habitats. Sometimes they do, though. The scimitar-horned oryx has done. The desert antelope was declared extinct in the 1990s in its habitats across North Africa within the Sahara. But now members of the species are back, scampering about in pockets of…

All those massive amounts of carbon dioxide we have been belching into the atmosphere have been creating a greenhouse effect, turning up the thermostat worldwide. But here is something else they have been doing: turning plants greener. Does that sound counterintuitive? Perhaps it should not. Plants thrive on carbon dioxide…