For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Antarctica sits above the strongest negative gravity anomaly on Earth, a region where the planet’s gravitational pull dips so ...

Why did the 2011 earthquake in Japan cause such a massive tsunami? This disaster, one of the deadliest in modern history, had surprised scientists by the way the fault ruptured much closer to ...

April 2026 - 13 days for £3,595 per person 10 April 2027 - 13 days for £3,595 per person Journey through Vietnam’s deep history from Hanoi to Hoi An on a science-rich adventure where every landscape ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Benton County Emergency Manager Bryan Lee urges Philomath-area residents to register for Linn-Benton Alert and prepare a ...

We are fortunate to have an amazingly diverse collection of rocks waiting to be recognized and appreciated. Each beach rock ...

Earth’s continents will meet again, and when they do, shifting seas, harsher interiors, and newer climate belts will reshape ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the Japanese Islands—plates converge and dense oceanic plates sink into Earth's ...