It also offers a venue to do so in a region with a reputation for being among the most geologically flamboyant on our planet. Guizhou is synonymous with the karst spires that stab the skies like ...

Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even more about their mysterious—and controversial—finding. Last year, the scientists made headlines ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Step Falls Preserve is nestled in the heart of Newry, Maine, a town so quaint it makes Norman Rockwell paintings look like gritty urban landscapes. It’s the kind of place where the moose outnumber the ...

New method harnesses Earth's natural forces to produce ammonia sustainably, offering a greener alternative to fertilizer production.

On Monday the company closed a US$996 million ($1.6bn) loan, including US$968m in principal and US$28m of capitalised interest, a US$268m mark up from a conditional loan announced for its Rhyolite ...

Urban geographer Stephanie Wakefield’s “Miami in the Anthropocene” calls for a new critical urban theory for our time.

Some say this 160-mile trip down one of North America’s last truly wild river systems rivals the Grand Canyon in terms of scenic wonder.

Evidence of the Zanclean Deluge, the ancient megaflood that transformed the Mediterranean Sea into what it is now, was ...

Whether sculpted by nature over millions of years or shaped by unique environmental conditions, these 30 unreal places in the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and ...