The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

Europe is trying to get itself on the global rare-earths map, and a new facility on Russia’s border is its opening bid.

Adventure travel has long captured imaginations, but cruising to destinations like Patagonia, the Galápagos, and the Amazon ...

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