When snow began melting on Isua island off the southwestern tip of Greenland, revealing a freshly exposed outcrop of rocks, geologist Allen Nutman and his colleagues got to work. The team was drawn ...

When did life arise and impact Earth’s chemical cycles? This is a key question in the planet’s evolution as biological activity plays a major role in its hydrosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere. In ...

Scientists have discovered 3.7 billion-year-old fossils entrapped by Greenland's ice, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. The newly discovered remains may represent the ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossils on Earth, 3.7 billion-year-old microbial remnants, uncovered in Greenland’s Isua Greenstone Belt. This exceptional discovery suggests that life ...

Scientists will gather in a remote and snowy part of southwestern Greenland next summer to try to determine if rocks from 3.7 billion years ago contain some of the oldest fossils of life on Earth — ...

When scientists talk about Earth’s history, they often mention huge numbers– billions of years, shifting continents, and oceans that have come and gone. But much of Earth’s earliest past has ...