More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

Central European Petroleum (CEP) has announced Poland's largest and one of Europe’s most significant conventional oil finds ...

At Aranya Art Center, the artist’s exploration of maritime history and global capital is animated by currents of death and ...

A powerful 7.4-magnitude undersea earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on 20 July 2025, prompting brief tsunami ...

The growing battle over how to manage sea level rise turns partly on a legal principle set down in Roman times.

A Brief Geology of the West,” a photo-rich paperback that reflects Eggleston’s years-long journey through parts of five ...

The latest issue of the University of Wyoming’s only peer-reviewed scientific journal, Rocky Mountain Geology, features an ...

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up ...

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a correspondingly ...

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust moved in relation to each other as early as 3.5 billion years ago ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...