The role of marine life in mitigating global warming takes a knocking as new findings link carbon on the ocean floor to forest fires

Geologists at Stanford Univer

Beneath the lofty Himalayan ranges lie extremely hot and radioactive rocks, the origin of which has remained a point of debate among geologists for years now. Recently, Audrey Huerta, a geophysicist

A new study sheds more light on how Argentina came into its present form

A recent finding about the earth s core could hold a clue to the forces that shape the planet

Slow, creeping movements of the earth might actually precede earthquakes, according to Clifford H Thurber, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin, US. Monitoring these creep events in the

Human endeavours like the building of dams are now being held responsible for the planet spinning a wee bit faster. Benjamin Chao, a geophysicistat NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,

Massive earthquakes that shook the American midwest in the last century were attributed to movements in the New Madrid fault zone in southern Missouri. Reportedly, there are innumerable such

Unique satellite images of the ocean floor, made available for the first time, could challenge the existing theories of the earth

Earthquake free regions may be pinpointed by studying the number of delicately poised rocks that dot them