But finding geological evidence of the extent of Earth's life (that is, locating rocks that formed with Earth, not on it) is ...

After 25 years in operation, the US’s waste repository in New Mexico is preparing for the future. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

In northern Quebec, an exceptional geological formation spans across time. Researchers have just confirmed that these stones, ...

Dating to the Cretaceous period, the geological era between 145.5 and 66 million years ago, the sedimentary rocks far underneath East Texas and Louisiana contain significant undiscovered energy ...

The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era, and 65 million years later, experts are pondering if we’ve entered a new geologic age induced by modern humans (and ...

The world’s first high-definition geologic atlas of the whole Moon on a scale of 1:2.5 million was officially unveiled on April 21. The atlas, both in Chinese and English, includes the Geologic ...

In 2009, a group of scientists first started investigating whether the Anthropocene should be formally recognized as part of the way we record geologic time.

China has officially unveiled the world’s only high-definition “geologic atlas” of the entire moon, the first major update of such basic lunar data since Nasa’s Apollo-era programme in the ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

Anthropocene refers to the age of humans — the things we've done to Earth. Geologists just rejected a proposal to declare an official "Anthropocene epoch." But everyone agrees: Damage has been done.

PARIS, France — A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the 'human age' its own distinct place in Earth's geological timeline after disagreeing over when exactly our era might have begun.