In India, many river names tend towards the mythical, the colour-based, or the regional, but geology-based nomenclature is ...

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

Gairloch Museum plans to build the new route to the village's Carn Dearg Youth Hostel. Roy Macintyre, one of those leading ...

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In her debut, Portland-based science writer Laura Poppick elegantly makes the case that Earth's ancient geological history is ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

World's largest iron ore deposit found to date transforms theories about ore formation and should generate trillions of ...

THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

James Hutton studied law and medicine and was not a good writer — he initially became a farmer but ended up becoming a celebrated geologist View of cliffs and water of the Firth of Forth from the ...

In 1946, following World War II, during which the U.S. took over the defense of Greenland, President Harry Truman offered ...

Millions of people around the world know of the Grand Canyon and many Arizonans have visited it — but few comprehend the incredible complexity and age of the rocks that form this vast gash in the ...