The G20’s new critical minerals framework wants to move Africa beyond raw exports so that mineral wealth creates jobs and ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

An AI app is decoding dinosaur footprints—and may have just spotted the world’s oldest birds hiding in plain sight.

Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State, will deliver a talk titled "Imaging Deformation Processes in Areas Prone to ...

What's under the ice? For the first time, scientists have been able to map the mountains and valleys under the ice of ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has ordered a nationwide review and inspection of all operating sanitary landfills following the deadly landfill ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

Earth’s slow axial wobbles—known as precession cycles—do not just shape long-term climate trends. A new study led by researchers from China, Belgium, and Austria shows that these orbital motions can ...

UnsplashCarbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions ...