Explore the 25 strangest scientific theories ever proposed, from phlogiston to the hollow Earth. Discover how bizarre ideas ...

Most major mass extinctions in Earth history are linked to greenhouse gas emissions causing warmer and drier climates. Research shows these perturbations also led to widespread wildfires and the ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

The Indian Ocean constitutes a complex mosaic of mid-ocean ridges, diffuse plate boundaries, intraplate deformation zones and plume-related volcanic provinces. Oceanic spreading along the Central and ...

Ancient volcanic rocks from Western Australia suggest that water was reaching deep into Earth’s interior more than three ...

A new study uses boreholes drilled deep beneath Antarctic ice to investigate why the continent’s glaciers are accelerating.

We propose a plausible solution to the long-standing paleoclimatology puzzle known as the Faint Young Sun Paradox through a ...

The gently sloping southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau preserves an important record of when and how the plateau expanded, yet its growth history remains contentious. By dating the cooling ...