Carried by winds high up in the atmosphere, a massive cloud of ash from the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier in southwest Iceland has led to the closure of airports throughout the UK and…

The earth has four major layers: the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust.  The crust is what we need to think about here and the earth's crust is divided into 'plates' that are like puzzle…

An asteroid impact was likely not responsible for the extinction of the North American megafauna – such as mammoths, saber tooth cats, giant ground sloths and Dire wolves – along with the Clovis…

Newly drilled core samples from the Antarctic Peninsula may contain ice dating back into the last ice age and could give new insight into past global climate changes. Oxygen-isotopic ratios – a…

A new study in Nature Geoscience has uncovered more evidence linking regular changes in  Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the planet's climate The new analysis of ocean sediment cores from 57…

Faint Young Sun - No Paradox The faint young sun paradox is no paradox, according to a recent paper in Nature. The faint young sun paradox is that the earth didn't freeze over when the sun was weaker…

How quickly the Andes Mountains reached their current height, an average elevation of 13,000 feet, has been a contentious debate in geological circles. Some researchers claim the mountains rose…

Geologists have long thought that the rapid global cooling period nearly 13,000 years ago known as the Younger Dryas (Big Freeze) was triggered by the melting Laurentide ice sheet. But geological…

A team of geologists say that, in just two centuries, stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels have wrought such vast and unprecedented changes to our world…

Geophysicists have developed a new model of the Earth, 20 years in the making, that offers a precise description of the relative movements of 25 interlocking tectonic plates that account for 97…