But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...

The crater was first noticed because of a strange dip in Earth’s gravitational field. Back then, ground-based surveys using ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

The Heard and McDonald Islands have no permanent human residents, but they are home to millions of penguins, seals, and other ...

SuBastian did it again! Roughly 600 meters beneath the icy waves near the South Sandwich Islands, the remotely operated ...

Heard Island and the McDonald Islands and their surrounding waters are unique in Australia, having the country’s only active volcanoes, its highest mountain and only glaciers. There are ...