Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting ...

NANJING -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: the first mass ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The Northeast Ohio native is part of an environmental science class studying the area for its importance to the global ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

Forget the neat, tidy narratives you might have heard in school about a stable, unchanging Earth. Just like history, our ...

The story of Atlantis, a mythological continent that vanished into the sea after its inhabitants displeased the gods, has ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

Climate change is usually associated with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, but our planet's surface also plays a major ...

After circling the globe and stepping foot on all seven continents, you start to notice patterns. Not the kind you get from textbooks or documentaries, but the fuzzy, emotional, life-changing kind ...