Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...

The implications of not understanding the formation of the inner core are far-reaching. Previous estimates of the inner ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Earth’s evolution has been shaped by a series of severe environmental crises that occurred millions of years ago, profoundly ...

The Gondwana supercontinent broke up millions of years ago. Now, researchers are piecing it back together again.

In a new study, geologists from Australia and China have pieced together Earth's tectonic evolution over the past 1.8 billion ...

The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.

How the Rising Earth in Antarctica Will Impact Future Sea Level Rise Aug. 2, 2024 — The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a major factor in future sea level rise ...

A GROUNDBREAKING new model shows how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion years ago. The scientific theory of plate tectonics strives to explain how mountains, ...

"A tectonic reconstruction that spans multiple supercontinent cycles is important to understand the long-term evolution of Earth’s interior, surface environments, and mineral resources," they write.

Watch how Earth looked like 1.8 billion years ago; witness its journey from then to now: The video also revisits the so-called ‘boring billion’ period, spanning from 1.8 billion to 0.8 billion years ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating, than the one ...