After Earth’s greatest extinction, it wasn’t just volcanic fury that kept the planet hot; it was the death of tropical ...

Texas regulators are restricting new injection wells due to rising reservoir pressure, seismic activity, and potential damage ...

The End-Permian mass extinction was caused by a much more extreme disaster than present-day climate change. Back then, the poles’ ice caps completely disappeared, which would translate to a 230 ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its most catastrophic extinction event. Widely known as the Permian extinction and dubbed the “Great Dying,” it wiped out an estimated 90 ...

The toxic water that gushes out of oil wells in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico has spurred environmental concerns ...

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological ...

The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...

Letters to the Editor - June 4, 2025 I would like to thank the patrons of the arts in the Permian Basin for your support these past 27 years.