The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through ...
National Geographic joined a 50-day voyage to understand the mysterious creatures of the ice-locked southern continent.
The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just a byproduct of the tectonic plates beneath our feet.
A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...
The map of Earth looks settled at first glance. Continents feel fixed, named, and counted. Yet over the past few decades, ...
Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...
It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...
Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, New Zealand, on a ...
A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.
A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.
Long dismissed as a geological mystery, this underwater giant is now changing everything scientists thought they knew about ...
Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting ...
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