When farmland is returned to the wild, it shows a striking ability to hold onto the carbon that built up in farm soils over ...

A n enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

For the first time, scientists have observed how a subducting oceanic plate actively breaks apart into fragments, forming ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...