Category: Earth

Antarctica is situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and covers an area of 14.2 million km2.

Described as a polar desert, the continent has an average annual precipitation of 166 millimetres and is covered by ice with a thickness…

Located in the American Southwest on the Continental Divide, in Grants New Mexico, the Bandera Volcano lies dormant, adjacent to the geological wonder of a subterranean ice cave.

As it stands today, the volcano is a prime example of a cinder cone,…

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have found evidence of a cosmic cataclysm 1,500 years that may be responsible for the downfall of the Hopewell Culture.

The Hopewell Culture was a widely dispersed set of pre-Columbian Native American…

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, have proposed a new model of crystallisation where crystals remained suspended in liquid magma over hundreds of millions of years as the lunar ‘slush’…

Groundbreaking study confirms time of year when asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth.

A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and an international team of scientists conclusively confirms…

A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years ago.

Its analysis of minerals in southern China indicate that volcano eruptions produced a “volcanic winter” that…

A recent paper published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology and in which researchers from the University of Seville participate, explores the complex relationship between humans and mercury over time.

In this article, entitled…

In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant.

Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the settlement in its time had become the largest…