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

One minute you’re driving through rolling farmland, passing cheese shops and supper clubs, and the next you’re standing at the edge of a pristine lake surrounded by 500-million-year-old quartzite ...

Ever had that moment when you’re scrolling through exotic vacation photos, sighing at your empty wallet, while sitting just miles away from a geological wonder that ... nature showing off what happens ...

Colorado linebacker Jeremiah Brown during football practice on Aug. 1, 2024, in Boulder, Colo. (CU Athletics) During his two seasons at CU, Hart has shuffled the deck a bit and even benched ...

Land managers are reintroducing North American beaver (Castor canadensis) into Western United States (U.S) waterways to restore degraded riparian ecosystems. Beavers create cascades of sequential dams ...

This boulder has an iridescent green and gray sheen to it. In patches, there are black and white speckles and places where the rock looks scraped, which are called "slickensides." Figure 1: The ...

Despite their unusual, almost manufactured appearance, the most likely explanation for the spheres is that they are concretions, a geological process in which accumulations of matter form from ...

In 2005, a gigantic 35-mile-long crack opened like a gash in the Ethiopian desert. Thus began the East African Rift, a geological process in which the continent is slowly being torn in two. This ...

"We were surprised. These tubes are apparently not the result of a geological process," Passchier said, according to IFLScience. These micro-burrows are tube-like tunnels about half a millimeter ...

These structures don’t resemble any known geological process, and researchers believe they may be the work of an unidentified form of microbial life. If confirmed, this discovery could reshape our ...

“We were surprised,” Passchier said. “These tubes are apparently not the result of a geological process.” Some bacteria and fungi can survive in extreme environments by using minerals for energy.