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Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi Eruption After 12,000 Years
Introduction
On 23 November 2025, a shield volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar...
May 26, 2026
Diamond Anvil Reveals Earth’s Hidden Ocean
A Diamond Anvil in Guangzhou
At the State Key Laboratory of Deep Earth...
May 26, 2026
Did Earth Have Rings? The Ordovician Asteroid Halo Mystery
In September 2024, a Monash University team proposed that Earth had a Saturn-like ring...
May 26, 2026
First-Ever Fault Rupture Caught on Camera
How a CCTV clip from the 2025 Mandalay earthquake rewrote seismology
The afternoon...
May 25, 2026
Argoland: The Lost Continent Hidden Under Indonesia
Introduction
Argoland is a lost continent that broke off northwest Australia roughly 155...
May 24, 2026
Laschamps Excursion: When Earth’s Field Collapsed
Introduction
In a fourth-floor office of the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering...
May 23, 2026
Birth of a Sixth Ocean: Inside the Turkana Rift’s Final Act
On a hillside in West Turkana, late-Miocene mudstones tilt toward the sky in alternating...
May 23, 2026
Doggerland: The Megatsunami That Drowned Europe’s Lost Land
Introduction
It is a wet September night in 1931, and the...
May 23, 2026
Greenland’s 9-Day Seismic Mystery Explained
The Dickson Fjord Landslide of September 2023
At 12:35 UTC on...
May 23, 2026
World’s Oldest Impact Crater Found in Pilbara
Introduction
On a hot morning in May 2021, Chris Kirkland, Tim Johnson and...
May 21, 2026
Earth’s Inner Core Reverses Its Spin, Learn Why
Introduction
In June 2024, a team led by Wei Wang and...
May 20, 2026
Snowball Earth: When the Equator Froze
Introduction
In the early 1990s, Phil Schmidt and George Williams ran...
May 20, 2026
Tanis: The Hour the Dinosaurs Died, in One Layer
A paddlefish, upside down in sandstone, with glass beads packed between its gill rakers....
May 19, 2026
Libyan Desert Glass: King Tut’s Scarab & the Impact Debate
On 29 December 1932, a Ford Model A truck ground to a halt in...
May 17, 2026
The Great Dying: Earth’s Deadliest Extinction
Introduction
The Great Dying took place 251.902 million years ago, and...
May 16, 2026
The 1700 Cascadia Earthquake and Orphan Tsunami
On the evening of 26 January 1700, about a thousand kilometres of the...
May 15, 2026
Northern Appalachian Anomaly: The Hot Blob Drifting East
The Northern Appalachian Anomaly, Explained
In brief: The Northern Appalachian Anomaly...
May 14, 2026
The Great Unconformity: How a Billion Years of Earth’s History Went Missing
A new thermochronology study from the North China Craton argues that supercontinent tectonics, not...
May 13, 2026
LLSVPs: Hidden Giants at Earth’s Core–Mantle Boundary
Tuzo and Jason: The Continent-Sized Blobs Inside Earth
Drop straight down through the...
May 12, 2026
White Hydrogen: The Geological Gold Rush for the Fuel Hiding Under Lorraine, Mali, and Kansas
Natural Hydrogen: What the Geology Actually Shows
Natural hydrogen, the kind generated underground...
May 11, 2026