At a Manhattan dinner last week Professor Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia University’s Lament Geological Observatory, received the first $25,000 Vetle-sen Prize-for high achievement in the earth ...

This is the story of two scientists. Their search began five years ago with a single radiocarbon clue from the ocean floor. It led over many continents and seas, to drowned rivers and abandoned ...

Geologists have developed many theories to account for the ebb and flow of glaciers in Europe and North America. Some blame external causes, such as interstellar dust or changes in the earth’s ...

Carrie Masiello, the W. Maurice Ewing Professor of Biogeochemistry at Rice University, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s largest Earth and space science ...