There are two big challenges when it comes to tsunamis: first making sure people in the tsunami zone are notified and know ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

National Geographic reteams with Oscar-nominated director Sara Dosa and Oscar-winning producer Shane Boris on 'Time and Water,' set in Iceland.

New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the Americas.

There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A ...

The São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) in Brazil has approximately 22 million inhabitants and consumes an average of 61.6 cubic meters (61,600 liters) of water per second. Although nearly the entire ...

UW–Madison’s Julie Klinger explains how rare earth elements power modern technology, shape global supply chains and offer ...

Proposed legislation would allow companies to convert abandoned oil and gas wells for geothermal and energy storage use.

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote that 50 or 60 years ago a common perception was that the ocean was the new frontier, and in the future, we would get our food, water and minerals from the infinite sea. There ...

About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms poking out of dark soil, picked one of the brown caps, and examined its ...

On February 17, the first shipment from the new antimony project at Port Pirie, South Australia was exported. A decade ago, ...