In Bad Nature, sociologist Andrew McCumber draws out the cultural underpinnings of rat extermination across three countries and two continents. Drawing from ethnographic, interview, and textual data ...

Not so deep beneath the waters of the Pacific lies a sunken continent. Is this Earth's 8th continent? Today I investigate these wild claims to see if there's any truth to this. Trump Wins Two ...

An incredible mapping effort has revealed the mystery of what had until recently been Earth's missing continent. Zealandia was only recognised as Earth's eighth continent back in 2017, and part of ...

In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.

Backed by $19.3 million from the Bezos Earth Fund and $8.1 million from the Global Methane Hub, a new initiative will fund research and breeding programs across North America, Latin America ...

A recent study has overturned a foundational assumption about Earth’s early geological evolution by showing that the planet’s very first crust, formed around 4.5 billion years ago, already exhibited ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the Farallon slab. (Image credit: Hua et al. Nature Geoscience (2025)) ...

It reveals that Earth’s first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably similar to today’s continental crust. It’s long been thought that tectonic plates ...

Researchers have identified a section of ancient oceanic crust beneath the Midwest that is pulling present-day North American crust into the mantle. This process has created large geological “drips” ...

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Although the remnants of the plate are now about 600 kilometers below the surface, the study suggests it still plays an active role in reshaping the continent above it. Thorsten Becker is a co-author ...