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…
New drill core shows a boom-bust landscape in the east African rift valley at a defining moment in human evolution, technology and culture. For hundreds…
Long-debated plate located in Northern Canada using 3D mapping technology. The existence of a tectonic plate called Resurrection has long been a topic of debate…
A pioneering technique that captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped to solve a long-standing scientific enigma. The dramatic effect…
Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in the early solar system. About 4.5 Ga (giga-anum, or billion years ago), as…
Study suggests parts of the Sierra Nevadas formed in a “geologic instant,” more than twice as fast as previously thought. Although we can’t see it…
Pioneering new research has helped geologists solve a long-standing puzzle that could help pinpoint new, untapped concentrations of some the most valuable rare earth deposits….
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but some of Earth’s finest gemstones were, according to new research from Rice University. Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon and topaz…
ETH researchers have used a computer model to test a new hypothesis about the formation of the Alps while simulating seismic activity in Switzerland. This…
Uncovering New Understanding of Earth’s Carbon Cycle University of Alberta PhD student authors paper shedding new light on Earth’s deepest mechanisms using information from diamonds….
Precariously balanced rocks (PBRs) are formations found throughout the world where a slender boulder is balanced precariously on a pedestal boulder. They form as blocks…
The research places the ice sheet’s modern decline in historical context, providing a robust look at how this century’s losses could starkly outpace prior changes….
International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets. Geoscientists from Goethe University have found the largest extraterrestrial diamonds ever discovered – a…
Changes in the Earth’s climate over the last 66 million years have been revealed in unprecedented detail by a team involving UCL researchers, highlighting four…
Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago is coincident with major volcanic eruption. Texas researchers from the University of Houston, Baylor University and Texas A&M University…
When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the eastern…
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire. Some of the oldest remains of…
An international team of researchers has found that some of the oldest terrain on Venus, known as tesserae, have layering that seems consistent with volcanic…