Geoscience

Is the fault of whale strandings partially in the stars?

Despite the latest forecasting science, climate change threw a wrench into this writer's latest seafaring voyage

Violent crumpling of rock left a continental edge that is much more interesting than we imagined

A seismologist walks us through the region’s tectonic history

A new way of thinking about the history of the Earth.

The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe.

The deepest extract from the middle layer of the Earth offers a wonderland of insights.

Learning to appreciate the big picture.

How geology resolves the Fermi paradox.

Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.

Scientists have long puzzled over the behavior of mixed particles in rivers and landslides. New clues could be groundbreaking.

Climate change may exacerbate the quiet catastrophe of slow-moving landslides.