The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

And now, in a triumph of cross-border collaboration, an international team, armed with a rich Chinese fossil record and ...

A plan to sell public lands was removed, but a federal budget bill still contains steep cuts to agencies and programs that ...

Welcome to Falling Waters State Park in Chipley, where Florida’s tallest waterfall plunges 73 dramatic feet into a cylindrical limestone sinkhole, then vanishes completely underground like nature’s ...

Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

The geology, fossils and human stories of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument are part of a common geologic heritage.

Tucked away in Huntingdon County, Trough Creek State Park showcases rock formations so uniquely spectacular that geologists get misty-eyed just thinking about them, yet somehow this 541-acre ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

The heat history (i.e., “dwell time”) of the carbon source gas was demonstrated as a vital parameter for very rapid single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) forest growth with long lifetime. When the ...

This summer, more travelers are stepping away from screens and seeking out places where nature takes center stage. That craving for deeper connection and a ... Read moreThe post America ...