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, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

For winter weather enthusiasts in the Washington region, recent seasons have been a huge disappointment. Snow amounts haven’t ...

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 ...

The largely unexplored region is home to a tectonic plate junction that is “the only modern site in the world where a mid-ocean ridge is being swallowed beneath a continental plate,” the institute ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are formed by the spontaneous crystallization of minerals from groundwater with an extremely high salt content ...

In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers ...

Dariel Vasquez, a Parks and Recreation aide employed by the New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Department, was killed while battling a fire in a forest in Greenwood Lake, ...

The Oak Ridge Boys are on their “American Made” farewell tour and the group seems sincere about saying goodbye to the ...