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Scientists have traditionally focused on volcanic arcs as the main natural source of atmospheric carbon dioxide. These form ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

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How Earth got its water may trace back to its original building blocks. Apollo Moon soil shows meteorites added only a small ...

Bank of America (BAC) just waved a not-so-subtle red flag for bond market investors and anyone positioned in the stock market ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...