Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Scientists Crack Mystery Behind Large Slabs of the Earth's Crust That Went 'Missing' From Geological Records The Earth is no ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

Learn more about this new hydrothermal feature that could be connected to one from Yellowstone’s past.

Today is the first-ever World Glacier Day. Switzerland plays a central role in monitoring glaciers melting globally.

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Global sea level will rise rapidly in the coming century; perhaps by more than 1 metre.  This is primarily caused by  increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (source: IPCC). Submerged peat ...

Drilling from the North Sea. In the center you can clearly see how a layer of brown peat is covered by a layer of gray clay, the moment (8700 years ago) that this part of the North Sea was flooded.

A new volcanic vent was discovered at Yellowstone National Park, the U.S. Geological Survey announced this week.