Their typical population sizes helped the team estimate how many ethnolinguistic groups might have existed around 12,000 ...

Clairice Johnson Jug Handle State Natural Reserve near Fort Bragg is exhibit A in the case against our collective failure to ...

A LiDAR mapping project run by the Geological Survey of Victoria estimates there are 230,000 historic mining features across Crown land. Existing records had only mapped about 30,000, and officials, ...

Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO 2 from the atmosphere, regulating Earth’s climate on geological timescales. But recent ...

Venezuela was struck by a magnitude 7.2 and a 7.5 earthquake just 39 seconds apart on June 24, 2026. A doublet occurs when two mainshocks of similar magnitude rupture nearby or the same fault in rapid ...

Twin earthquakes like those that ripped through the region are unusual but not unheard of. Scientists are already gathering data needed for a more detailed picture. By Robin George Andrews See more of ...

New Delhi: In an unfortunate incident, two powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela on Wednesday evening (local time), killing at least 32 people and injuring about 700 others. The strong tremors damaged ...

Geologists have solved the mystery of the disappearance from the geological record, millions of years ago, of one of North America's most important waterways: the Colorado River. A paper published in ...

The arid hills of Western Australia’s Pilbara region contain the earliest evidence yet of tectonic plates sliding across Earth’s surface. Tiny magnetic crystals locked in the bedrock recorded the ...

Geologists have recently documented bands of perfectly parallel, millimeter-scale tunnels carved through solid marble and limestone, a pattern no known geological process can explain. If biological in ...

During mantle overturn, large-scale plumes rise toward the surface, contributing to the formation of the Archean continents. Simultaneously, the temperature at the core-mantle boundary rapidly ...

An innovative hypergravity centrifuge in China can handle up to 1,900 G-tons, which makes it possible to test future scenarios that would otherwise be invisible for decades or millenia. It can ...