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Clown fish at Flynn Reef Cathedral, Great Barrier Reed, Australia. Credit: Andrea Clark

One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found.

Prof. Xiangkun Zhu and Kan Zhang sampling rocks from North China that record an oxygenation event coincident with the evolution of complex eukaryotes.

An international team of scientists have found evidence for a progressive oxygenation event beginning ~1,570 million years ago.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Simon Poulton has been awarded the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society.

The School of Earth and Environment will be strongly represented at the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting that’s in New Orleans this year (11th – 15th December).

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The challenge of growing enough food to sustain an ever-expanding population has led the Chinese government to look at creative solutions to reform farming in the country.