An app that converts smartphones into makeshift seismometers and could save lives by providing early warning of earth...
Everyone is familiar with rocks. It’s hard not to be. They’re everywhere – we walk on them, skip them across ponds, d...
As this year kicks off the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration” to try and repair some of the damage caused by humans, s...
You’ll hear it often in stories about palaeontology and archaeology: “the wood was dated using radiocarbon dating”, “...
A microbe that feeds on radioactivity has been at an evolutionary standstill for up to 175 million years, researchers...
Scientists studying the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano in Hawai'i have discovered a way to predict the violence of ...
By Chris Kirkland, Curtin University; Hugh Smithies, Curtin University, and Tim Johnson, Curtin University Earth i...
A new study of the famous iron-red rocks in Western Australia’s arid Pilbara region has revealed that the formation o...
Microplastics appear to be interfering with the very fabric of Earth: its soils and the millions of microbes living i...
Geologists are fond of giving dramatic names to past events, such as “The Great Dying” or “Snowball Earth” or “The Ca...
Easing rainfall today will start to bring some relief to flood-hit parts of eastern Australia – not immediately in ma...
After more than 40,000 earthquakes on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland over the past four weeks, lava began to burs...
