A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to four people familiar with the ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

Mercury levels in the world's rivers have more than doubled since the pre-industrial era, according to new research from ...

Among the pines above the Mogollon Rim, wet meadows are small but crucial landscape elements. They benefit plant diversity, ...

The world is a classroom” rings true for fifth grade students who attend the Earth Festival at Camp Jefferson southeast of ...

Only later would it be revealed how these unpromising mounds were the remnants of one of the oldest cities on Earth: Eridu. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland John George Taylor ...

Department of Environmental Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, U.K., Department of Geography, University College London, Pearson Building, Gower ...

Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea wasn’t nearly as picturesque as it is today. It was barely even a sea; tectonic activity had raised a mountain range in the Strait of Gibraltar ...

All soils can suffer erosion but some are more vulnerable than others. Soils with dispersible subsoils, for example, are subject to serious erosion by tunnelling and gully formation. Understanding the ...

FA is enriched with mullite, silica, and alumina. Having such mineralogy, FA can be envisaged as a promising candidate for combating erosion and corrosion in marine environments. With this motivation, ...

Water reshapes Earth through slow, powerful erosion, carving intricate landscapes like caves and pinnacles in soluble rocks ...