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Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

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A strong, 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Thursday, according to the United States Geological ...

IN considering the climatic changes which have evidently taken place on various parts of the earth's surface, it seems to me that what may have been a very important factor has been rather strangely ...

Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan: a landscape “lonely as a dream,” wrote Edward Abbey. Bryan Schutmaat It’s 12:30 on a November afternoon, and I’m sitting on top of Guadalupe Peak, the highest mountain ...

In northern China lies the Zhangye Danxia landscape, a breathtaking display of red, gold, and violet layers that ripple ...

A minor earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.3 struck in Southern California on Thursday, according to the United ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

Aftershocks have been recorded for both earthquakes. On Dec. 8, Japanese authorities warned an even more powerful earthquake ...

A magnitude 7 earthquake has rocked Alaska on Saturday, Dec. 6, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).