Category: Earth

Scientists studying volcanoes have long thought that rising magma rich in gas…

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous structures buried deep inside Earth. These anomalies may retain geochemical signatures distinct from the surrounding mantle. Yet, their origin remains enigmatic. Rutgers University…

In embarking on the research and travel for a book about the…

Earthquakes are pretty straightforward, geologically speaking. Tectonic plates…

You’ve likely heard a lot of chatter about “rare earth elements/minerals”…

Researchers have discovered an impact crater formed on a granite mountain capped by a thick weathering crust in southern China. Located in Zhaoqing in China’s Guangdong province, the Jinlin crater is one of only about 200 identified craters…

Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs.

Tiny floating plankton, the base of the food web, can accidentally ingest particles of sediment kicked up by deep-sea mining operations —…

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium and lead inside the calcite of fossilized dinosaur eggshells found in the United…

We’ve gone to the bottom of the ocean to study how its chemistry shapes our planet’s climate, even chasing lava-spewing underwater volcanoes to do it. But it turns out we may have missed something far closer to home: the water beneath our…