Scientists reveal a never-before-seen species of leopard-size apex predator that lived in lush forest 30 million years ago.

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

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A groundbreaking new study provides the first consistent global picture of glacier decline since 2000, revealing that ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

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For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Our continent is gradually drifting closer to Asia, moving at a rate of seven centimetres per year ...