Geoscience

The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine

Earth scientist Kate Marvel gets personal about climate science

A finding in the Arctic could push the formation of Earth’s crust back by 130 million years

Watch this mesmerizing animation of winds blowing across the globe

Lessons for our current Earth from the geologic past

Laura Poppick’s 3 greatest revelations while writing her book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

Vivid geological maps reveal the movement of the Mississippi

Early explorers felt the powerful pull of the poles

Is the fault of whale strandings partially in the stars?

Despite the latest forecasting science, climate change threw a wrench into this writer's latest seafaring voyage

Violent crumpling of rock left a continental edge that is much more interesting than we imagined

A seismologist walks us through the region’s tectonic history