This period was anything but boring. There was a time in Earth’s history that was so stable, geologists once called it the Boring Billion. But the fact is, this period was anything but boring. In fact ...

A new study, using a combination of old models, new geophysical data and improved simulation software, reconstructs how plate tectonics changed the shape and position of the continents over the past 1 ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today. Scientists are unlocking secrets about how plate tectonics forged our modern world ...

Seahorses are one of the ocean's worst swimmers but their origin story is great. How did seahorses — one of the ocean’s worst swimmers — spread around the globe? And where did they come from in the ...

Earthquake: The shaking and vibration of a section of the Earth's crust due to the movement of the Earth's plates (plate tectonics). Natural hazard: A naturally occurring event that causes harm to ...

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth's climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ ...

In 2016, the geochemists Jonas Tusch and Carsten Münker hammered a thousand pounds of rock from the Australian Outback and airfreighted it home to Cologne, Germany. Five years of sawing, crushing, ...

Researchers used small zircon crystals to unlock information about magmas and plate tectonic activity in early Earth. The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely ...

Life on this planet has a lot going for it. The Earth is not too hot, nor is it too cold. We have just enough carbon dioxide in our atmosphere to prevent a runaway greenhouse effect. We have plentiful ...

Venus and Earth are similar in size and mass, but took strikingly different evolutionary paths. After all, Earth is – at present – an oasis for life. And Venus, the planet next door, is a boiling ...