How African Dust Storms Create the Caribbean’s Beautiful Beaches—and Protect Them from Hurricanes
Bermuda's red soil and the Bahamas's white-sand beaches might have come from the same place: the Sahara Desert.
Bermuda's red soil and the Bahamas's white-sand beaches might have come from the same place: the Sahara Desert.
Fear not: the chances of “The Big One” hitting while you read this article are very, very slim. But that doesn't mean you should let your guard down.
Research shows that a volcanic eruption in Alaska triggered a two-year cooling period in the Mediterranean—possibly destabilizing an already volatile Roman Republic.
Bombs were dropped near Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano to divert the flow of lava in the 1930s and 1940s, and two devices that never exploded have just been discovered.
Old Faithful isn't as predictable as it used to be, but geologists in Yellowstone National Park can still time its eruptions pretty accurately.
From a lake the color of Pepto-Bismol to mysterious rock rings in the Sahara Desert, these strange geological wonders continue to stump scientists.
Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, is a sacred site to the Anangu people. As of Saturday, it will be permanently closed to tourists looking to climb it.
Standing around 325 feet tall from peak to base, Chimney Rock looms like a lighthouse on the Great Plains—and had a starring role in a popular video game.
See the satellite photo that just confirmed the existence of an extremely rare lava lake on a remote island.
The ocean basins are constantly opening and closing, so what caused Pangea to break apart is slowly putting the next supercontinent together.
Archaeologists aren't sure how ancient people moved the rocks used to make Stonehenge 4000 years ago. But now, part of the mystery has been solved.
When you really think about how recent some discoveries we take for granted are, Pluto and Clint Eastwood have a lot in common.
They formed when a crater hit the spot 15 million years ago.
She thought she had dug up a piece of glass.
This is the first time the fluorescent mineral has been identified in Michigan.
The continents are going to look very different 50 million years from now.
If you have a cell phone in your pocket or dirt on your shoes, you’re carrying silicon.
Let's review why and how we've known for at least 2300 years that the Earth is round.
The beach is wonderful when it's not giving you third-degree burns.
Talk about striking gold.
Trace the evolution of Earth era by era.