A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried ... Latest findings suggest that the Earth's atmosphere went through a sequence of oxygenation episodes fueled by geological and biological interactions ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep inside the planet, hot rock began rising. Over time, this invisible force ...

The longer we wait, the more difficult it is to reverse climate change. This is because climate change builds upon itself.

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away ... created an uplift in land that contributed to closing the ancient Tethys Sea, splitting it into what is now the Mediterranean ...

Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, and resilience during one of Earth’s most ... capsule filled with ancient trees that have ...

Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the ...