Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Plants and trees send their roots into the ground to soak up water and nutrients from the soil. Until now, scientists ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

Beneath the forest floor lies an overlooked secret: many plants grow a second set of roots far deeper than expected sometimes ...

Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for at least 230 million years. But so far, not a single trace of dinosaur ...

A small team of researchers at Tongji University, working with a colleague from the Shanghai Academy of Landscape ...

Meta Earth is carving a bold path with ME Network 2.0, a modular blockchain ecosystem designed to redefine decentralized ...

These photos show all the beautiful, terrible ways humans are changing the Earth. Ahead of his new exhibition, legendary photographer Edward Burtynsky opens up about his search for wonder and the ...

Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west with North America, and Europe drifted east. Ocean crust flooded the gap, ...

Scientists have discovered the single largest repository of gold in the world that makes Fort Knox look like a piggy bank. Making up 99.999% of all the precious metal on the planet, it's just ...