Small black dimples of soot and microbes speed the melting of Kashmir's iconic glaciers
The sun shines hottest on pockets of glacier that don't reflect away its rays
Geologist uses ocean floor to solve the mystery of the Tibetan plateau
The details of how the "Roof of the World" formed have long been a geologic riddle
Extinction risks in a rapidly warming planet depend on previous slow temperature swings
Considering "climate memory" changes the risk calculation as much as an organism's geographic range or abundance
People of the Tiahuanaco civilization engineered their own rocks to build temples and monuments
The discovery illustrates the great ingenuity of ancient construction workers
The supposedly oldest impact crater on Earth isn't a crater after all
A history-rewriting discovery in Greenland in 2012 has been debunked
New evidence for the first life on land comes from an ancient microbial fingerprint
By comparing the chemical composition of modern microbial communities to their ancient counterparts, researchers can find better evidence of the earliest life on land. It's older than you think
Geologists find evidence of two new supervolcano eruptions at Yellowstone
Their trends suggest that the next eruption won't happen for a long time
Scientists recreated ancient Earth's ocean hell to figure out how life began
The experiment also suggests that extraterrestrial life could also emerge on Mars, Europa, and Enceladus
Meet Alice Wilson, the Canadian geologist who did the work of five people
She wasn't allowed to work at remote field sites, so she became the expert in her local rocks and fossils
5400 kilometers of vaporized ice: scientists have unearthed the mystery of the planet's oldest known crater
The Yarrabubba impact likely sent Earth's climate straight from the icehouse into the greenhouse
Here's how earthquakes rocked Puerto Rico into another emergency
Multiple events shook Puerto Rico's southern coast
Should the age of humans have a geologic name?
And how will Earth's history remember us?
Out in the jungle, looking for a cave? Machine learning and lasers can help
New techniques are helping field researchers locate hard-to-spot caves
I crush stalagmites from protected caves. What can I do to give back?
Scientists should do more with the communities where they work, a cave researcher writes