Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

UnsplashCarbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods and warm "greenhouse ...

The quake caused serious shaking in many parts of the Coachella Valley, located about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

USGS has reported a magnitude 4.6 earthquake north of Indio Hills. The quake struck at around 5:56 p.m., Monday, Jan. 19, ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) noted that a magnitude 4.9 earthquake is considerably stronger than those below 4.0 due to the logarithmic nature of earthquake measurement. This means that each ...

Mars may have once possessed an ocean at least as large as Earth's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. Previous research ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.