Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says geologist Anjana Khatwa, author of the new book Whispers of Rocks. In it, ...

BEIJING -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted off the east coast of Kamchatka at 0345 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...

Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula -- a ...

An earthquake measuring 6.3 magnitude struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Monday, the German Research Centre for ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano keeps erupting with syrupy lava flows, serving as a fiery reminder of nature's destructive power.

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound ...