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The Volcanic Way: How to unlock Iceland’s magical landscape - Amid dramatic volcanoes, steaming lava fields and glacial lagoons, a new self-drive route invites travellers to embrace Iceland’s ...
How the Earth Was Made peels back time like layers of rock to reveal the origins of the place we call home. The HISTORY® Channel, a division of A+E Networks, is the premier destination for ...
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Gaylord Nelson, the late U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin, is considered the founder of Earth Day, which started in 1970. Latest U.S.
Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.
Earth's tectonic history is what it is because of our planet's material composition. It's not like this on all planets, nor even all the rocky planets in our own solar system. However, the garnet ...
In a paper published today, Sept. 19, in the journal Science, a team of researchers, including paleobiologists Scott Wing and Brian Huber from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...
Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now. An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild ...
The layer of basaltic rock that people live on in Iceland extends to a depth of about 9 miles (15 kilometers). It’s part of Earth’s crust. The mantle that lies directly beneath this crust is distinct ...
In 2018, Wing, Huber and colleagues convened a workshop of climate scientists to share what they knew of Earth’s climate history and how such a big-picture view might be accomplished.
Song Zuokai, 81, peering at a rare earth mine in Baisha, in China’s Guangdong Province in 2010. China nationalized and consolidated the mines in the south into a single state-run company, Credit ...
The history of Iceland is written in the tephra layers of its landscape, and The Volcanic Way offers an accessible year-round immersion through “slow travel” – in keeping with the unhurried ...