THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

Along the western edge of South America, the Andes Mountains encompass one of the largest concentrations of volcanoes on Earth. Many of these volcanoes are active, and in the historical record of ...

Among all the planets in the Solar System, Earth stands alone. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics — a dynamic process that has shaped life, climate, and continents for billions of years.

Scientists have uncovered an extensive underwater vent system near Milos, Greece, hidden along active fault lines beneath the ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

Regal Funds Management, Ellerston Capital, Wilson Asset Management. Institutional investors have their names up in lights as backers of Firmus Technologies, the runaway artificial intelligence ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A new Florida law cracking down on drivers who block or alter the visibility of their license plates went into effect two months ago, but people are still confused about it. House Bill ...

State and local leaders are clarifying the penalties regarding a Florida law that went into effect this fall that prevents motorists from using frames around license plates that obscure some of the ...

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...