To understand how Earth's magnetic field has evolved over its history, geophysicists use models that simulate the thermal state of the core and mantle. These models help us understand how heat is ...

In September 2023, a global seismic mystery began to unfold. Every 90 seconds, the Earth pulsed with a strange, low-frequency ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

But in other respects, the heat was surprising, because it was even more extreme than he and many other scientists expected and models had predicted.. A double whammy of warming and a mystery ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than previously thought ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Is This Earth’s Most Important Climate Mystery? ... And finally, it makes our planet's largest heat transfer. The amoc more likely to slow or collapse closer to the equator.