An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

Time Is EverythingWhen it comes to distinguishing between weather and climate, weather generally covers short and specific ...

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

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Second on the podium is the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the Lake District of England. Taking the bronze is the Skye Lava ...

A new paper published in Biological Reviews has revealed the potential of desert ecosystems in the global fight against ...

The proposed NH-701A highway is far more than an engineering project; it stands as a litmus test for environmental governance ...

Geotourism becomes central to the sustainable development of these unique regions. Tourism projects based on the geopark’s ...

Staff warn cuts would leave the department without the resources to teach Leicester's growing student population ...

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 ...

For Jude Kastens, who grew up on a farm in northwest Kansas, rainfall was always serious business. Although flooding wasn't ...

Submarine canyons form in places where the seafloor is steepest, redefining how sediments and carbon travel to the depths of ...