In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." "These are times when geologic evidence indicates Earth froze over, essentially from ...

Exploring LIDAR: Tech using lasers to reveal the deep history beneath our world’s surface. The Channeled Scablands of the Pacific Northwest hide an astonishing secret. Evidence of a massive flood that ...

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear nights, we can even see their traces as shooting stars. Trapped in layers of ...

This is a book not just about how the Earth's surface was made – about mountains, deserts, atolls, volcanoes and floodplains – but also about how we came to see things as they are Our next Science ...