Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

An illustration of the Devonian period fish, Dunkleosteus, preying on eurypterids (sea scorpions), which in turn were feeding on the smaller trilobites. Depleting oxygen and rising hydrogen sulfide ...

Earth is as old as the rest as the solar system, but it wasn't always as it is now, this is particularly true of the brief ...

Most are Geological Sciences courses with titles like "Seminars in Paleoclimate". Asterisks* denote courses titled "Super-Problems in Quaternary Climate" The Earth has experienced many past intervals ...

A million years ago, the interglacial periods were relatively cool. Then, 430,000 years ago, they switched to milder conditions that resemble our own. A new paper looks at what drove this change.

Unlike its geographical poles, Earth's magnetic poles that serve as the foundation of our navigation are actively moving. The north magnetic pole has been slowly moving across the Canadian Arctic ...

According to a Newsweek article, a “study has highlighted the speed at which U.S. cities along the East Coast are sinking as sea levels continue to rise … . This subsidence is largely a result of ...

Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside the mantle.

The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense ...