A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

A long-dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in roughly 12,000 years, blanketing a neighboring village in ...

The on-and-off volcanic eruption that’s been dazzling residents and visitors on Hawaii’s Big Island for nearly a year is back ...

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption in 12,000 years. The volcano, called Hayli ...

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VOLCANIC ash has caused mass flight cancellation chaos after an enormous eruption in Ethiopia. The long-dormant Hayli Gubbi ...

After years of debate, the International Chronostratigraphic Chart has officially been revised. What does that mean, exactly? Our current point in Earth's geological timeline has been updated so that ...

There is no longer any debate that global warming is real, and that it is happening now at an alarming rate. It is transforming the global climate system before our eyes. The rise of fossil-fueled ...

A minor, 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 4:21 a.m. Pacific time about 2 miles ...

The strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Carolina — and on the East Coast of the United States — was a devastating 7.3 ...

I HAVE been much interested in Prof. Haughton's communication to NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 266, on the subject of geological climate and geological time. I fully agree with him that geological climates ...