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Record Fall Rains Revive Shallow Lake Manly in Death Valley’s Badwater Basin

Park officials expect a short-lived, inches-deep lake, with access constrained by storm-damaged roads.

Prospector’s ‘Gold Nugget’ Identified as 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite in Victoria

China’s Jinlin Crater Confirmed as Largest Known Holocene Impact

Breakup of Ancient Supercontinent Tied to Rise of Complex Life, New Study Finds

Scientists Map Vast Subsea Freshwater Under Greece’s Gulf of Corinth

Scientists Date Antarctica’s Oldest Ice and Air to 6 Million Years at Allan Hills

Study Finds Iran’s Taftan Volcano Is Dormant, Not Extinct, After Months of Uplift

New Studies Trace Rising Seas and Sinking Land, Raising Coastal Risk From China to the World

Study Finds Cascadia Megathrust Often Triggers Northern San Andreas in Closely Timed Quakes

Viral Audio Recreates Earth’s Ancient Magnetic Flip From ESA Swarm Data

New 'Ananguite' Tektite Field Identified in Australia From 11-Million-Year-Old Impact

Nagaland Fossils Tie Antarctic Ice Growth to Early Indian Monsoon Intensification

Experts Flag Eifel Volcanic Risk to Rhine as Monitoring Finds Deep Activity

Queensland’s 5.6 Quake Spurs Aftershocks and Rapid Seismic Monitoring

McDonough Meteorite Dated at 4.56 Billion Years and Set for Ongoing Analysis

UT Paleontologists Prepare 3D Documentation of Newly Revealed Dinosaur Tracks

Ancient Mantle Anomaly Beneath Appalachians Linked to Greenland Rift

Krasheninnikov Volcano Awakens After 450 Years as 6.8-Magnitude Quake Shakes Kurils

Canada Updates Seismic Model After Study Flags Yukon’s Tintina Fault as 7.5-Magnitude Threat

Two Minor Earthquakes Rattle Finistère in 24 Hours