For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20° Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such stable ...

Research led by the University of Wyoming shows that physical weathering is far more important than previously recognized in the breakdown of rock in mountain landscapes. Because it is difficult to ...

Huge amounts of rock will soon be barged from Nome to Utqiaġvik. It’s part of an effort to protect the North Slope community from shoreline erosion caused by storms and climate change. The Barrow ...

Rock coasts, which make up over half the world's coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise. The study found that rock coasts, traditionally thought of as ...

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla. — Some hefty rocks appear to have been moved. And these aren’t just any rocks. And they didn’t go to just anywhere. "This is the closest surf spot to my house," Nathan ...

Brad Carr, a UW associate research scientist in geology and geophysics, uses the Geoprobe instrument to sample the subsurface in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada in California. Carr ...