Earth and Atmospheric Sciences News

Geologists from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne have demonstrated new scientific results in the April issue of the journal Geology, which provide a new theory on the earliest phase of continental formation.

The elimination of ground-level vegetation is bringing another of the world's tiger subspecies to the brink of extinction, according to Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund researchers

After 35 years, a giant fossil penguin has finally been completely reconstructed, giving researchers new insights into prehistoric penguin diversity

A new study reports that the disintegration of the Maya Civilization may have been related to relatively modest reductions in rainfall

Stony Brook University researchers have devised a numerical model to help explain the linkage between earthquakes and the powerful forces that cause them, according to a research paper scheduled to be published in the journal Science on Feb. 17

Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane's broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists say lava formations in eastern Oregon are the result of an outpouring of magma forced out of a breach in a massive slab of Earth

New study, which uses data from over 6,000 earthquakes, shows the 11 March tremor caused a seismic fault close to the nuclear plant to reactivate.

The American West has seen a recent increase in large wildfires due to droughts, the build-up of combustible fuel, or biomass, in forests, a spread of fire-prone species and increased tree mortality from insects and heat.

Even if the current weather situation may seem to speak against it, the probability of cold winters with much snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in summer

A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred on Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade