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

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 ...

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

Tulane University researchers, collaborating with an international team of scientists, have discovered why some parts of ...

Biggest Ocean Mysteries Scientists Can't Explain: 25 Scary Facts That Are Terrifying Because They're True: Sometimes the ...

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...

Tulane University researchers have discovered why some regions of Earth’s crust remain strong while others give way, challenging long-held ideas about how continents break apart. The study, published ...

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex life to evolve.

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

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

As Australia faces longer, more erratic fire seasons, tools like this may prove essential for staying one step ahead of the ...