As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping ...

Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our mind-expanding science coverage, sign up to Simply Science, our weekly ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Scientists at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology have refined a method to measure post-glacial rebound in ...

Study of 10 million-year-old ferromanganese crusts reveals mysterious beryllium-10 anomaly, opening new pathways for ...

GREENWATER, Wash. — A 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the ground in far east King County on Tuesday morning. The Puget Sound ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...