Life on the newest island on Earth is thriving ... Massive eruptions of rock and ash from a volcano in Tonga created this new land in January. The baby island bubbled from the ocean about 65 ...

While the team expected to find the island’s zircons formed around 2.5 million ... It’s believed that mantle plumes remain in ...

SEE: Before and after images/video of this Pacific island, destroyed and restored to be a breeding ground for sea turtles and ...

Image source: NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin Unfortunately, NASA says this newly birthed island isn’t likely ... he can usually be found enjoying a new world in a video game, or ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from Colombia’s Universidad de Los Andes, led by Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, ...

The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.

Geology textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates ... and for which Easter Island now provides new clues. More information: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte et al, Zircon xenocrysts from ...

The Nuuk airport invites direct transatlantic flights to Greenland for the first time—and a new wave of adventurous travelers ...

With no singular style and a range of microclimates, the one through line among distillers is a creative energy—and that they ...

Long Islanders honored veterans at cemeteries, houses of worship and gyms, where children packed toiletries for those who are ...