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

The abundance of natural resources on the largest island on Earth is tied to its hugely varied geological history over the past four billion years ...

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

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.

This early history of the Maya peoples in Mesoamerica details the art and architecture of the Preclassic period, more than ...

Tiny crystals preserved in ancient beach sands are offering scientists a new way to read the deep history of Australia’s landscapes.

Curtin University researchers have demonstrated a new way to uncover the ancient history of Australia's landscapes, which ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on climate models. These models, in turn, are based on data from past geological ...