Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...

Scientists predict Africa’s gradual split will eventually form a new ocean, creating separate landmasses. This tectonic shift ...

A study published in the journal One Earth explores how marine biodiversity conservation, human health and well-being are ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

Although the consequences of a quarter of the planet’s water melting could be determined theoretically, this is the first ...

A new study led by Virginia Tech has found that, after the last global ice age, Earth went through a dramatic and rapid ...

The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...

The rules vary from place to place, but the idea is to allow nature to flourish by limiting human activity as much as ...