If oceans didn’t exist and there was only land between continents, traveling around the world would look very different! We’d ...

Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant valleys and rugged, rocky plains that were once the ocean floor, connecting ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

The puzzle pieces left behind by Pangaea, from fossils to the matching shorelines along the Atlantic Ocean, provided the first hints that the Earth's continents move.

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

brooding over their eggs along warm cracks in the ocean floor. Until recently, the deep sea was too distant, cold, and high ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

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