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A team from the Jackson School of Geosciences has found that the plate directly beneath North America is dripping hot lava into the Earth's mantle.

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) celebrated the 50th dedication anniversary of its headquarters in Reston on July 12. USGS is the sole scientific agency of the United States government and a ...

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Scientists have discovered that deep-water corals in the Galapagos region vanished for more than 1,000 years before ...

In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

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For the 11th year of Writes of Spring, co-editor melanie brannagan frederiksen and I asked Manitoban writers to send us poems ...

New research shows La Niña may have driven the collapse of deep-sea corals in the Galápagos, lasting over 1,000 years.