How regions can cope with the consequences of natural and human-driven changes to the Earth's environment, what future changes they can expect, and what the…
A popular volcano demonstration in grade school science class rivets students' attention as it spews bubbly liquid over a tabletop, but it comes up short in…
Human and animal skeletal remains indicate possible royal cemetery, ritual sacrificeAn ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on…
The once westward roll of what is now the world's largest river was caused by a long-gone highland near what today is the river's mouth. That highland was…
Whether you favor meteor impacts, volcanic eruptions, cosmic rays, epidemics, or some other cause for the worst mass extinction events in Earth's history, no…
The mysterious lull in vertebrate colonization of land is known as Romer's Gap, named for the Yale University paleontologist, Alfred Romer, who first…
The finding means that scientists will have to re-examine studies of sedimentary rock deposited across North America during the Silurian period, from 416 to…
A detailed study of sedimentary rocks exposed along a portion of southern California's San Jacinto fault zone shows the fault to be no older than 1.1 million…
What really caused the largest mass extinction in Earth's history?USC earth scientists will reveal new clues at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of…
The idea that fracture traces could bare some connection to the rock cut tombs found in Egyptian valleys came to Katarin A. Parizek as she toured Egypt. K….
Using a novel technique that reveals regional changes in the weight of the massive ice sheet across the entire continent, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space…
“The most common question I get is, 'When are we going to run out of oil.' The correct response is, 'Never,'” said Eric Cheney. “It might be a heck of a lot…
The ozone layer acts to protect life on Earth by blocking harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun. The “ozone hole” is a severe depletion of the ozone layer high…
Getting a clearer view of how ice behaves is important because it will help scientists predict more accurately how the ice sheet will respond to future climate…
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University College London, and the Katholieke Universiteit…
The finding is the first concrete validation of a long-held hypothesis that oxygen was being produced and consumed by that time and that the transition to an…
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