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Interactive: The Heezen–Tharp World Ocean Floor Map

Explore Marie Tharp's groundbreaking 1977 World Ocean Floor map and discover how it transformed our understanding of the Earth.

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during August!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section...

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during July!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section...

Super-Earths may be solid deep inside their mantles

Deep inside super-Earths—rocky planets with masses between 1 and 10 times that of Earth—high pressure can cause familiar minerals to take forms rarely seen on Earth. Understanding...

Joining Science Inquiry and ELA Skill-Building

An interdisciplinary unit that connects science inquiry and English Language Arts objectives can help middle schoolers make sense of extreme weather and climate change while buildi...

A 2-Billion-Year-Old Clue Challenges a Popular Earth Science Theory

A key geological clue to a global disruption in Earth’s ancient carbon cycle may have a more local origin. Between roughly 2.5 and 2 billion years ago, Earth underwent the greatest...

Earthquake sensors reveal vital information about how hurricanes move and grow

Seismic stations in Louisiana have been found to provide insights into Hurricane Isaac The post Earthquake sensors reveal vital information about how hurricanes move and grow appea...

High resolution satellite data used to monitor coastal changes

Earth Sciences NZ has been using new satellite data to track how coastal areas of New Zealand are changing in the face of climate change.

Geophysicist identifies a maximum practical viscosity

Boundary between materials that flow and those that don’t could shed light on Earth’s early history The post Geophysicist identifies a maximum practical viscosity appeared first on...

Climate Trunk - Science

In April 2026 we published a guest blog post by John Lang in which he introduced his "Climate Trunk" graphics project and website. Since then, he has been adding one graphic per we...

Why do Earth’s hidden stress fields matter for our future? Let’s explore the latest insights from the World Stress Map d...

Beneath the serene landscapes we inhabit, the Earth’s crust is a battleground of constant, immense, and invisible tectonic forces. While humanity typically only notices this deep-s...

Earth’s Inner Core May Hide a Strange State of Matter

Experiments under extreme conditions suggest that iron hydride can enter a superionic state, allowing hydrogen to move through a solid iron lattice. Far beneath Earth’s surface, th...

July Research Roundup: Select Papers

This month, we covered the 2026 Environmental Performance Index; how gas bubbles shaped Kīlauea’s lava flow; and the Pacific’s contrasting effects on wildfires. Here are some addit...

Wiring the Spirit’s House

Lamont scientists Terry Plank and Einat Lev worked with partners in Chile to install a new suite of sensors on the summit of Villarrica, bringing real-time monitoring to one of Chi...

Scientists Detect Strange New Structures Deep Inside the Earth

They're buried thousands of miles below the surface. The post Scientists Detect Strange New Structures Deep Inside the Earth appeared first on Futurism.

August Research Roundup: Select Papers

This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as well as new research on unexpected trends in U.S. extrem...

Explore One of Earth’s Greatest Geological Mysteries on This Colorado Field Trip Hosted By The Geological Society of Ame...

From Marie Tharp to Seabed 2030: Marine Geophysicist Vicki Ferrini on Mapping the Ocean Floor

In honor of Tharp's birthday, Ferrini discusses the geologist's pioneering work and how it paved the way for her own collaborative efforts to map the ocean floor.

Scientists Find a New Way To Detect Hidden Water Ice on the Moon

By studying how seismic waves move through frozen soil on Earth, a geophysicist helped develop a more effective method for detecting water ice on the Moon. Beneath the Moon’s perma...

Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging

Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features.