A 2024 satellite photo shows an unusually active bloom of toxic cyanobacteria swirling in the water of Nevada's Pyramid Lake.

Philip Marsden’s latest book ‘Under a Metal Sky’ excavates the history, science and social-environmental consequences of ...

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

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

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite ...

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

A machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and ...

UB earth sciences students develop valuable fieldwork skills during a trip to New Hampshire to study igneous rocks and volcanic landscapes.