Truth is, many parishes in Europe are growing. But others are dying. As one theologian noted in a 1969 German radio interview, Catholicism was entering a time of painful decline in the modern world.

Better wood and better stoves are key to getting cleaner air in Fairbanks, a cold-weather region where atmospheric inversions ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

"We have this amazing image of this particular section of the Gofar fault, but we haven't yet been able to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional ...

New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...

Critically, oceanic core complexes—unique to slow-spreading ridges—are reinterpreted as diapirs of buoyant serpentinites, reshaping understanding of crust-mantle interactions.