Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano, one of the most active lava lakes on Earth, offers critical insights into active geological processes like those at mid-ocean ridges. New technology, including GPS devices ...

South Florida will indeed stay dry, with only an occasional cloud in the sky. Daytime highs on the coast should hover in the ...

Whether it was interfering with a fire department’s critical efforts, colliding with a paraglider mid-air, or inadvertently ...

To overcome this challenge, the researchers focused on Besshi-type VMS deposits that formed on sediment-covered mid-ocean ridges. The ages of these deposits can serve as precise markers for the ...

The rare site was about two million years old beneath thousands of feet under the Atlantic Ocean and may contain secrets of ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

Meteorologist Ava Marie says Thursday will start out with some showers but will clear for a warmer but windy rest of the day with temps in the upper 40's.

Oceans present wide, open spaces that stretch to the abyssal plains, the trenches, and the mid-ocean ridges. Seas are comparatively shallower, with average depths ranging from several hundred to ...