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 ...

With Taiwan in the headlines, aspirants must go beyond the news. UPSC links such issues to a broader knowledge spectrum. What ...

Slow-moving slides are common around the world, and especially in California, where several hundred have been mapped in ...

Literal groundbreaking research by Dr. Giorgio Arriga enhances our understanding of the long-term evolution of seismogenic ...

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