The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks represents a gap of around a billion years of history. Among much debate ...

There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

Recent fieldwork by Griffith University researchers has highlighted an African country is facing a rapidly escalating environmental crisis as severe gully erosion – locally termed “mega gullies” – ...

How does climate change influence the speed that Arctic coastal regions are retreating? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as ...

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...

During these episodes, known as Snowball Earth, ice sheets spread from the poles toward the equator, turning much of the ...