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For more than 40 years, Stanislav Filatov, Professor at St Petersburg University, together with colleagues from other research institutions in Russia, has been studying the…
Inaccessible for now, unique site may hold secrets of past. Scientists have detected what they say are the sediments of a huge ancient lake bed…
International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the world’s most continuously active —…
High-pressure, high-temperature investigation of real rock reveals unexpected behavior at more than 1000 kilometers depth. Scientists have recreated the conditions of Earth´s deep mantle in…
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann, geologist from the University of Freiburg’s Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, together with mineralogist Prof. Dr. Wolf Uwe Reimold from…
Earth’s magnetic fields typically switch every 200 to 300 millennia. Yet, the planet has remained steady for more than twice that now, with the last…
A meteorite that originated on Mars billions of years ago reveals details of ancient impact events on the red planet. Certain minerals from the Martian…
Mega-droughts – droughts that last two decades or longer – are tipped to increase thanks to climate change, according to University of Queensland-led research. UQ’s…
Donwilhelmsite is important for understanding the inner structure of the earth. A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in the lunar meteorite…
Earth’s most arid desert may hold a key to finding life on Mars. Diverse microbes discovered in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers in Chile’s dry…
A new method shows that it’s now possible to estimate the volume of magma stored below volcanoes providing essential information about the potential size of…
A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to…
A new study coordinated by CU Boulder makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that…
Global warming of 2°C would lead to about 230 billion tonnes of carbon being released from the world’s soil, new research suggests. Global soils contain…
Current understanding is that the chemical composition of the Earth’s mantle is relatively homogeneous. But experiments conducted by ETH researchers now show that this view…
Imperial College London researchers have simulated for the first time how soil moisture content affects the ignition and spread of smoldering peat fires, which can…
Geologists Dig Into Question of Martian Soil Fertility Humankind’s next giant step may be onto Mars. But before those missions can begin, scientists need to…
A new international study led by Monash University climate scientists has revealed that ice loss in Antarctica persisted for many centuries after it was initiated…