A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

History teachers love making everything sound clean and simple. "This happened, then that happened, everyone learned a lesson ...

A vanished continent beneath Europe is rewriting geological history and revealing how Earth recycles entire landmasses.

The story of Atlantis, a mythological continent that vanished into the sea after its inhabitants displeased the gods, has ...

Deep within caves, high up in the mountains and trekking at the two polar extremes of the earth – Will Smith adventured to ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Africa. This is happening along the East African Rift, a long stretch of land where the Earth’s surface is slowly pulling ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

A massive geological rift is tearing one of Earth’s largest continents in two, faster than scientists once believed.

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...