There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week’s question comes from Emily in Washington, DC. Crawford Lake in Milton, Ontario. The answer to ...

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The Dolomites are about 250 millions years old and are composed mainly of sedimentary rocks and limestone. Today, we can hardly imagine that once the mighty mountains were an enormous coral reef, ...

The study of ecological dynamics would benefit greatly from a tripartite research effort similar to that used so successfully in climate and ocean dynamics (see Figure 2.1), where information about ...