Geologists traced the Grand Canyon’s billion-year gap to faulting and erosion during the ancient breakup…
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PhD student discovers that solar radiation could be a more important source of lunar iron…
Researchers map the geothermal heat flow in West Antarctica; a new potential weak spot in…
New research shows that Earth’s greatest extinction event 252 million years ago coincided with a…
Geoscientific study traces carbon-silicon cycle over three billion years on the basis of lithium isotope…
By studying bacterial lipids in ancient coal, scientists showed that a drop in CO2 cooled…
The results could help scientists unravel the processes underlying plate tectonics. If the Earth’s oceans…
Three studies published in the past month have cast doubt on the premise of subsurface…
Researchers warn that history shows Earth’s systems can flip quickly after crossing tipping points. Without…
Research from MIT Haystack Observatory finds a stratospheric warming event over Antarctica linked to anomalies…
Research team with Goethe University participation successfully proposes former quarry in Lower Saxony as Global…
The arrival of plants on land about 400 million years ago may have changed the…
New research reveals early Earth faced frequent giant impacts that may have influenced oxygen and…
Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm…
A new paper finds more radar signals suggesting the presence of subsurface ‘lakes,’ but many…
Detailed Observations Enable Better Understanding of Future Ice Shelf Stability A global team of scientists…
Penn State scientists tracked community recovery after COVID-19 lockdown using fiber-optic sensors, finding vehicle and…
Results demonstrate the power of nickel isotope analyses, which are relatively new, to solve long-standing…