Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already forming a sixth ocean in East Africa.

A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese ...

The conservation of one of the richest wild salmon spawning grounds in America is under the guidance of an alliance most people have never heard of.

In the new study, researchers attempted to estimate how recently the Moon was active. They did so first by identifying 266 ...

A new study has provided compelling new evidence that a huge “megaflood” refilled the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million years ago. This surge of water - the Zanclean Megaflood - is said to ...

No Name Expansion Adding 377 Acres of terrain to Monarch Mountain On a cold but brilliant, bluebird day a few weeks ago, a group of media types gathered ...

4) In the TM–Hami Basin ... regions of the Tianshan Mountains (TM), Qilian Mountains (QM), and Altay Mountains (AM) receive higher precipitation, turning them into “wet islands” in the desert. They ...

In this study, we interpreted and surveyed the terraces of the Qingyi River, which runs through the Longmen Shan Mountain in the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. A systematic approach was ...

Mountains can leave us in awe ... Some experts view this collision as one of Earth’s major events during the Cenozoic era. This basin in the northern region has caught the attention of scientists ...