For most of its history, Earth has existed in a greenhouse state—warm, ice-free, and rich in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The ...

Research Indicates Uranus Moon to Have Hidden Oceans, Trenches on Ariel Could Reflect Subsurface Water Recent studies led by ...

Livecam footage from Hawaii shows a fountain of lava shooting out of Kilauea Tuesday morning, as the volcano continues its ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are known to be contaminants originating in industrial processes and materials, as well as ...

Climate change is overhauling marine nutrient cycles. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 15, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250204173752.htm ...

The northern part of Sierra Nevada still retains its dense layer, making it a snapshot of an earlier stage in this geological cycle. This discovery provides a rare glimpse into the mechanisms ...

Listen to Story Continents formed through a combination of processes It began billions of years ago during the early history of the Earth Initially, the Earth's surface was dominated by molten rock In ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by ...

Nearly 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 years, according to a recently updated map from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map is the first to ...

Their evidence comes from a pair of sunken, continent-sized “out of tune” geological islands located inside a tectonic plate “graveyard” 1,800-feet-below the planet’s surface.