Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents. This means the telltale fingerprints of ...

A 30-meter sediment core extracted from the “Great Blue Hole” in Belize offers the longest continuous record of storm ...