Today UNESCO designated 12 new geoparks, bringing the total number of sites in the UNESCO Global Geopark Network to 241 in 51 ...

The 12 newly designated geoparks are located in China, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, the Russian ...

Scientists have discovered a huge tectonic boundary under Africa, running from Mozambique to Tanzania.

New research and observations reveal that Earth's continents, glaciers, and deep mantle are changing at a pace visible within ...

Astronomers analyzed the vapors coming off the comet when it neared the sun and found it had a lot of "heavy" water. That ...

The massive invertebrates may have been top predators, according to an analysis of their fossilized jaws. The work suggests ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

New fossil discovery reveals 535 million-year-old worms, annelids, that were already crawling and swimming, reshaping early ...

The settlement of coastlines and the use of marine food resources, often collectively referred to as coastal adaptations, feature prominently in global ...