Humans Implicated in Africa’s Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago
A new study published in the journal Science suggests that humans might have played a significant part in the sudden deforestation of rainforests from Central…
A new study published in the journal Science suggests that humans might have played a significant part in the sudden deforestation of rainforests from Central…
Geologists are using new airborne lidar equipment to study earthquakes and provide comprehensive before-and-after pictures earthquake zones. The lidar (light detection and ranging) equipment can…
In the next 50 to 200 million years, all of Earth’s continents will be once again pushed together into a Amasia, a single landmass around…
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) have developed a mathematical model that gauges how fast the Apalachicola Bluffs and valleys…
The Little Ice Age (LIA), a mysterious period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period and extended from the 16th into the 19th…
Using isotopes in rocks blown out of the Ubehebe Crater, Scientist have discovered that this prehistoric volcanic explosion occurred far more recently than previously thought….
It has been demonstrated experimentally that a diamond’s trip from deep below the Earth’s surface must be very quick, since lab tests have shown that…
Researchers at MIT have published their work on the reconstruction of the Wyoming Province. Despite billions of years of turmoil beneath the Earth’s crust, the…