The Amazon looks like a world of rivers and rain, but the real surprise is what hums below: a slow, sprawling mass of freshwater quietly moving through sandstones, floodplain sands, and ancient valleys. For years, scientists suspected that groundwater kept trees green long after the last storm, but new basin-scale analyses and field studies ...
Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, something extraordinary happens before many volcanic ions. In the days, weeks, or even months leading up to these explosive events, volcanoes produce mysterious sounds that scientists have learned to decode. These acoustic signals, invisible to the human ear, hold crucial clues about impending ions and have revolutionized how we monitor ...
Deep beneath Illinois farmland lies one of the most remarkable scientific discoveries of the 21st century. The preserved remains of an entire tropical forest, frozen in time for over three hundred million years, reveal extraordinary details about life on Earth before dinosaurs even existed. This spectacular find has changed our understanding of ancient ecosystems and ...
When you think about lightning’s power, you might imagine dramatic strikes splitting trees or lighting up the night sky. Yet beneath the surface, this electrical force performs one of nature’s most hidden and spectacular acts of creation. Every single lightning bolt that reaches the ground carries the potential to forge something extraordinary in the depths ...
When you think of , probably the first things that come to mind are those famous colorful logs turned to stone. But beneath this stunning landscape lies a treasure trove of ancient secrets that’s rewriting what we know about life on Earth over 200 million years ago. Scientists are discovering that this park isn’t just ...
Picture this: you wake up one morning to find ash falling like snow across your city. The skies turn an ominous gray, temperatures plummet, and the sun becomes a dim memory hidden behind thick volcanic clouds. While it sounds like something from a disaster movie, this scenario has happened before in Earth’s history. Supervolcanoes – ...
Earth’s oceans feel eternal, yet their origin reads like a cosmic detective story with missing pages and conflicting witnesses. For decades, scientists argued over whether our water was baked out of young Earth’s rocks or delivered by wayward space rubble. New measurements from ancient minerals and meteorites have sharpened the picture, but they haven’t drained ...
First, scientists have found the record of an enormous tsunami that hit Japan when dinosaurs roamed the Earth stored not in rock but in amber. A new research shows that twisted pieces of ancient tree resin, 115 million years old, have the characteristic marks of a deadly oceanic wave. In a study published in Scientific ...
Geologists have been studying rocks, fossils, and ice cores for hundreds of years to learn about Earth’s past climate. A new study has reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes with an accuracy that has never been seen before. This study shows patterns that could change how we think about climate change. This research, ...
A stretch of streaked grey rock in a remote, windy part of northern Quebec has sparked one of geology’s most heated debates. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB) is a rough outcrop on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay. It may have the oldest intact rocks on Earth, dating back an incredible 4.16 billion years14. If ...
