Drawing on satellite measurements and global economic data, a new report from the World Bank finds that Earth is losing ...

A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica's massive glaciers are ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

In the darkness nearly a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, where the pressure would crush a human and temperatures hover just ...

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 ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly underwater landmass, spanning about 4.9 million square kilometers, challenges ...

Which continent is called the Dark Continent? Learn why Africa got this name, the history behind it in detail. Also learn ...

A new study by Dr. Angela Harris from The University of Manchester and Professor Richard Bardgett from Lancaster University ...

Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists believe they are witnessing the slow death of one in the northern end of the Cascadia subduction zone.