Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, scientists are uncovering alarming evidence of tectonic movement that ...

Geography is more than just maps and coordinates; it’s the story of our world told through landscapes, cultures and natural ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

The reason Earth’s oceans may have looked different in the ancient past is to do with their chemistry and the evolution of photosynthesis ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

Together, surface and deepwater currents form the “global conveyor belt,” which circulates seawater over a 1,000-year journey ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

What’s happening under the Sierra Nevada could offer rare insight into how the continents formed ... a thinner and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above ...