The University of the Witwatersrand has launched two initiatives that place Africa at the centre of global earth-science innovation.

Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...

When an Antarctic glacier was sparked into rapid retreat three years ago, it left scientists scratching their heads as to ...

The mind-blowing pace of retreat from the Hektoria Glacier is reminiscent of glacial retreats from the Ice Ages.

The case began way back in 2002 with the extraordinary collapse of an ice shelf called Larsen B in the eastern Antarctic ...

Researchers discovered microbial communities thriving in ultra-alkaline deep-sea mud volcanoes with pH 12, among the highest ...

Glacier erosion is transforming Earth's landmass at an astonishing rate. Artificial intelligence reveals how melting ice ...

Key points Australia generates an estimated 620 million tonnes of mine waste annually, stored in 250 active tailings dams ...

Anyone older than 18 likely went through the conventional higher education system. The majors you took were ones that your ...

Palash Kumawat, Elmar Albers, Wolfgang Bach, Frieder Klein, Walter Menapace, Christoph Vogt, Florence Schubotz: Biomarker evidence of a serpentinite chemosynthetic biosphere at the Mariana forearc.

Our blue planet may be the most habitable we know of, but it still contains pockets of toxicity here and there. The Atacama ...

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