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

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

In his seminal work of popular geology called Basin and Range, John McPhee first pinned the concept of deep time down on ...

Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

A new video shows how Earth's magnetic field weakened and warped before temporarily flipping during a recent "polar reversal event." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

One of the best known examples of that latter phenomenon is the Cambrian Explosion—the geologic period some 530 million years ...

On Oct. 19, amateur, expert and hobbyist geologists will venture to the Sierra Valley and the Lost Sierra as part of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology’s (NBMG) annual free and public Earth ...