A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago.

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

JAMES HUTTON has been justly claimed by Sir Archibald Geikie as the ‘father of modern geology.’ He was born and bred in Edinburgh, where his father had held the post of City Treasurer.

Some areas in the Permian have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as the prime Tier 1 acreage. Despite record U.S. crude oil production ...

I’m also a paleontologist, and I’m involved in this idea of the Anthropocene: that humans are changing the geology of the Earth in a big way. We worked on the question of what kind of fossils ...