Earth Science

LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Utah State University geoscientist Alexis Ault recalls the devastating aftermath of back-to-back 7.8 and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes...

Researchers at West Virginia University are working to ensure small landowners and local communities, instead of large corporations, profit from the ability...

uOttawa team explores carbon in 3.9-billion-year-old Canadian rocksCredit: University of Ottawa uOttawa team explores carbon in 3.9-billion-year-old Canadian rocks The...

Mammoths, the massive pre-historic ice age cousins of the modern-day elephant, have always been understood to have inhabited parts of...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why...

Dense Hydrous Magnesium Silicates (DHMSs) are generally considered as primary water carriers from the shallow lithosphere to the deep mantle...

Antarctic-wide survey of plant life to aid conservation effortsCredit: Felix Grewe Antarctic-wide survey of plant life to aid conservation efforts...

DALLAS (SMU) – There’s an important dividing line in the history of recent Texas earthquakes – those occurring before and...

Drylands, found across every continent, cover about 45% of the Earth's land surface and support 38% of the human population....

The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier.Credit: Joshua Brown The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier. A new...