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Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.
Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...
At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...
New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...
In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...
A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...
Image by Elizabeth Claire Alberts/Mongabay. “The Arctic mid-ocean ridge area is still poorly studied,” Ribeiro said. “We don’t have a very good assessment of [biodiversity in] areas such ...