With a new book on the history of wind, Simon Winchester opens up about fear, aging, and the adventures that shaped him ...

The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

W hen geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas , he didn't expect to come back ...

For four decades, the Dolly Steamboat has carried visitors through the cliff-lined waters of Canyon Lake, offering a ...

A new exhibition examines the environmental and cultural histories of a storied place on Kingston's shoreline now known as Belle Park.

The U.S Geological Survey plans low-altitude flights in November over eastern Maine from the Downeast coast up into northern ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says ...

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Modern scientists point to an empirical truth: We live on a planet in constant motion and mutation. As Winchester presents it ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...