“You have the potential for truly enormous eruptions, possibly up to 10,000 cubic kilometers erupted in a single event,” Leif ...

Irene Cionni, a senior research scholar in Boise State’s Department of Geosciences, has been awarded a seed grant from ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Nitrite, a key player in the ocean’s nitrogen cycle, accumulates in deoxygenated waters for reasons that remain unclear. Our chemostat and three-dimensional models showed that competition amongst ...

Beneath the arid slopes of the Altun Mountains in southern Xinjiang, geologists have uncovered what is now considered the ...

Hydrous minerals within the Earth affect volatile cycling and mantle geodynamics. Jun Tsuchiya explains how stable phases of these minerals are being uncovered at increasingly high pressures.

New research shows Karnak Temple was built on a rare island of high ground formed as Nile river channels shifted thousands of ...

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

Dr Nguyen Thai Chinh, a specialist in earth science and satellite geodesy and a member of the Vietnam–Germany Innovation ...

Deep beneath the ice that defines modern Greenland, scientists have uncovered traces of a very different world, one that ...

The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history.  Driven by drought and extreme winds, a massive fire burned its ...

A study analyzing these modules reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 meters below sea level where light cannot reach.