This volcanic coastline in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain features red, black, and yellow mineral cliffs. Dark lava rocks contrast with pale sand and clear Atlantic water. The unique geology of ...

Hidden River Cave in Horse Cave, Kentucky, is home to the world’s longest underground swinging bridge, and it’s probably the ...

Marcia Bjornerud loves rocks. Not just under a petrographic microscope, but as animated entities with properties and ...

Particle size and shape influence virtually every aspect of mining operations – from the transport and deposition of ...

Duke researchers found no evidence of impacts to domestic well water from legacy, or historic, lithium mining in North Carolina. Used in products like rechargeable batteries, lithium is a silvery ...

Starting just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, a vast underground deposit of lithium stretches south for 25 miles. A key ...

The situation is increasingly difficult in Niscemi, Sicily, as the landslide front that forced over a thousand people to evacuate has expanded to a width of over four kilometers. Giuseppe Collura, a ...

Most courses are field-oriented and include day-long field trips in the local Colorado Front Range and multiday, sometimes multi-week, trips through Colorado and into New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and ...

Geology has long been a field rooted in exploration and discovery. Traditionally, geologists spent long hours outdoors, mapping landscapes by hand and studying rock formations up close. These hands-on ...

During the fall 2024 semester, Tufts’ Department of Earth and Climate Sciences announced two new majors, earth science and climate science, and a minor in earth and climate sciences. This semester, ...