Scientists probing for Earth's oldest continuous ice core near the South Pole Basin have uncovered disturbed basal layers and ...

(Reuters) -Sediment deposited at Crawford Lake, a small but deep body of water in Canada's Ontario province, provides unmistakable evidence that Earth entered a new human-driven geological chapter - ...

A new study by UC Davis and Chinese researchers shows how extraterrestrial forces move Earth's climate into a glacial phase both over the last 34 million years and 300 million years. Recent rapid ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland's ...

PASADENA, Calif.–In a new study that provides a novel way of looking at our solar system’s past, a group of planetary scientists and geochemists announce that they have found evidence on Earth of an ...

Recurring high-energy flood events are not the exception but the rule in the Ahr Valley in western Germany—and this occurs ...

Japan will embark on a rare earth mining test in the Pacific at a depth of 6,000 meters around Minamitori Island this month, hoping to counter China's dominance in the supply of the elements crucial ...