An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might ...

The coal feeding a steel mill in China may trace its origins to a peat bog that stopped accumulating plant matter more than 145 million years ago. The crude oil refined into jet fuel across the Middle ...

Paul Hanson and Matthew Joeckel of the university's Conservation and Survey Division worked with the U.S. Geological Survey ...

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake ...

A new academic paper by Paul Hanson and Matthew Joeckel of the Conservation and Survey Division in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's School of Natural Resources contains a brief phrase—"new ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has shattered a historic space exploration record, traveling farther across another world than any ...

The story of a catastrophic flood appears in the Bible and in several ancient traditions, which has led generations of readers to ask if geology preserves evidence of one enormous event that covered ...

Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution ...

New radiological consequence analyses for Switzerland's proposed deep geological repository at Nördlich Lägern show ...

Prologue: Can You Sell Dumplings on a Road Haunted by Bandits?In period dramas, bandits suddenly appear before travelers ...

From the fertility of the Nile to the energy of coal and oil, geologist Esther Lapaz vindicates the role of the Earth in the ...

Assistant Professor Chukwuebuka Nweke explains how the region’s sedimentary basins can amplify seismic waves – and why ...