Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Known as stratigraphic inversion, this discovery challenges our fundamental understanding of how Earth’s layers are formed. A ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

A thin layer found in the top few centimeters of soil plays a big role in its ecology. Biocrust is built, maintained and ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early Earth. Instead of requiring high temperatures or complex catalysts, this ...

There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

The research on black carbon needs to be updated as more becomes known about the aerosol, and that makes tracking wildfire ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by biogeographers for centuries, a new study finally finds empirical ...