Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

The Earth Sciences contribute to answers on a wide range of societal and economic questions in areas such as: the natural means of existence (water, raw materials, the energy transition), the ...

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Those observers who believed that Donald Trump in his second term as US President would be as constrained as in his first ...

At the confluence of multiple tectonic plates, on the Pacific Ring of Fire, sits the West Coast of the United States, where the Cascade mountains in Oregon and Washington are ...

Lava from Hawaii's most active volcano created fountains that reached 700 feet Thursday during the latest episode of an ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient human fossils have been discovered, helping scientists piece together the ...

These tracks are around 140 million years old, from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African and South American tectonic plates were starting to pull apart. Southern Africa has an ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossil evidence indicates that humans began domesticating avocados in what is now Honduras around 7,500 years ago. Analysis of 1,725 fossilized avocados from the ...

Across the street from the Dinosaur Discovery Site museum, the dig crew has already begun to open a new fossil quarry. So far, they have discovered a fish fossil and several fossil tracks, or ...

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

Africa, like the rest of the world, faces an immensely consequential choice: exploit fossil fuels that contribute to global warming, or forge a new path with renewable energy. Mr. Wright said ...