Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth seen from the Moon during the Artemis II mission. (NASA) Mass extinctions. Giant volcanic eruptions. Oceans suddenly ...

The story of a catastrophic flood appears in the Bible and in several ancient traditions, which has led generations of readers to ask if geology preserves evidence of one enormous event that covered ...

Mass extinctions. Giant volcanic eruptions. Oceans suddenly deprived of oxygen. At first glance, Earth's biggest geological disasters seem to have little in common beyond their sheer scale. But for ...

Geological events that completely reshaped continents while early humans were apparently just napping Alberta votes to remain in Canada, CBC projects Old Age Security payments for October are bigger ...

Mercury is a toxic heavy metal that can exist stably as a gas, with high volatility and global distribution in the atmosphere. Volcanoes represent a primary natural source of Hg in the atmosphere, ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The asteroid that ...

Rock and fossil lovers of every age have a free reason to head to Alum Creek State Park next month. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey is hosting Ohio Geology ...

Much of our understanding about the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods that shaped the geology of the Pacific Northwest comes from Western scientists. But those records almost always overlook ...