One of the most puzzling phenomena lies beneath the Indian Ocean, south of Sri Lanka, where a massive gravity anomaly known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) has confounded researchers for decades, ...

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

Growing up, most of us learned that Earth is home to seven continents ... North American and Eurasian tectonic plates – started to give way, creating a hot mantle plume that formed into a volcanic ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from industrial hotspots can cause snow to fall ...

The effects of industrial pollution on cloud formation have long interested scientists. Velle Toll, a climate physicist at ...

MANILA, Philippines — A plume rising 1,000 meters, accompanied by occasional ash, was emitted by Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

Interpretation of seismic reflection profiles in the southwestern Eurasia Basin and north of Svalbard support a regional mantle thermal anomaly as the source of intraplate Cenozoic magmatism and ...