Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

In the ocean, this same process creates mid-ocean ridges. Hot magma from Earth’s mantle wells up at these ridges, forming new ocean crust and shoving the plates apart. Underwater mountains and ...

A named storm will likely form in the Northwest Caribbean later this week, and it could strengthen and head toward Florida or ...

D.C.’s winters are steadily warming and average snowfall amounts are declining over time because of climate change. Considering this, it would be going out on a limb to forecast a cold and snowy ...

More information: Jingbo Nan et al, Unraveling abiotic organic synthesis pathways in the mafic crust of mid-ocean ridges, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.

Despite the approach of two storms with rain, drought and high brush fire conditions are likely to persist for weeks for millions in the Northeast, AccuWeather meterorologists say. The brush fire risk ...

The fire was one of several blazes in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast this weekend amid an ongoing ... “From where I was last ...

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A rare observance of a deep sea squid using one of its tentacles like a giant tongue got stranger still when it spewed out its intended meal and sped away. The bizarre moment was recorded off the ...

The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane was likely to flood parts of Central America and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula ...

New seafloor forms in places where magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge and cools to form volcanic rock. The hydrothermal vents spew into the cold sea the super-heated ...