The Open Space and Recreation Working Group hosted a hike through Willis Woods to a glacial erratic, one of many large boulders deposited across North America by retreating glaciers at the end of the ...

Traveling up from the Mars equator toward its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region ...

Recent high-resolution imaging of Mars has unveiled deep ‘scratches’ and craters that suggest the Red Planet once experienced ...

Coloe Fossae was shaped by powerful tectonics, which stretched and cracked Mars's crust, causing chunks of ground to collapse ...

The Meghalayan Age marks the most recent subdivision of the Holocene Epoch, which began approximately 11,700 years ago, ...

A worn-down mammoth tooth discovered nearly 150 years ago on an island in Nunavut offers new insights into where and how the ...

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

In an 1864 report, Haast argued the ice age had been caused by uplift of the South Island. Vast glaciers had formed as the ...

Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 42% since 1979, when regular satellite monitoring began. As the ice grows thinner ...

Warm deep water driven by ancient meltwater feedbacks caused rapid ice-shelf collapse in East Antarctica 9,000 years ago. The ...

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 ...

Just come prepared for serious winter conditions—this is Maine in January, not a light dusting in Seattle. Spring brings renewal as the forest shakes off winter’s grip. Wildflowers carpet the forest ...