A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient ...

The land bridge created by mantle-driven uplift gave early primates and other animals opportunities to branch out.

Every person, by nature, is afraid of something. This is how the self-preservation mechanism works. Fear of the dark, heights, confined spaces, airplanes, water - all of these fears are among the five ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... that our planet experiences as a result ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

The Mauritania iron ore train has been running since 1963. It was built not for people, but for purpose — to carry wealth ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

It’s an example of how the long-term convective evolution of the planet interacts with the evolution ... on the surface — from the formation of deserts to the fate of our ancestors. Once again, Earth ...