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

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

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 ...

The Arctic Ocean was once an important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere — and it could become one again, researchers warn.

An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of ...

A multi-billion-dollar critical minerals partnership between Australia and the US is touted as a landmark industry deal and ...