geography

Researchers present a new approach to trace the first emergence of old rocks using a different mineral—barite

Researchers use geological records of past sea levels to shed light on the ice sheets responsible for a rapid pulse of sea-level rise in Earth's recent past

University of Copenhagen researchers have been following vegetation trends across the planet's driest areas using satellite imagery from recent decades

Inaccessible for now, unique site may hold secrets of past

Researchers' methodology predicts location of shallow coral reefs with nearly 90 percent accuracy

Hotspots have trended toward smaller but more numerous clusters since the pandemic started

Warming may be triggering era worse than any in recorded history

Study by experts in Sheffield and Kyoto, Japan, found meat consumption explained less than 10 percent of difference in carbon footprints

Rapanui people likely believed the ancient monoliths helped food grow on the Polynesian island, study reveals

Geoscientists can reconstruct the climate of the past by analyzing dripstones—and they can also draw up prognoses for the future