During the Proterozoic, Earth grew no taller - the tectonic processes that form mountains stalled, leaving continents devoid of high mountains for nearly 1 billion years, according to a new study.

Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Great Transformation The Dolomites are about 250 millions years old and are composed mainly of sedimentary rocks and ...

AMHERST, Mass. - The formation mechanism of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York has long posed a geologic mystery, say seismology researchers at the nearby University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

The Rocky Mountains are beautiful, sure, but to geologists they have also been a bit frustrating—because they aren't located where mountains are supposed to be. Now, one team of geologists think they ...

Building mountains in minutes requires deep rocks and a big bang. Rings of mountainous peaks sit inside large impact craters, but scientists weren’t sure how these features formed. One explanation ...

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ ...