The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published its draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List on April 2, 2026, proposing for ...

New research may have solved a long-standing geological mystery in the United States that has puzzled scientists for more than 150 years. Scientists have spent more than a century trying to understand ...

The continental collisions that created this narrow Mideast waterway endowed the region with its petrochemical riches—and ...

From the International Space Station, it looks unmistakably like a scar left by a meteorite: a series of concentric rocky ...

The appointment of an independent review panel into a proposed underground storage site for spent nuclear-fuel rods is likely ...

Olivine, the most common mineral in the upper 400 km (about 250 miles) of Earth’s interior, has long been studied for how it deforms. Scientists have identified two primary directions of dislocation ...

The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving — a process known as plate tectonics. These dynamic ...

This past winter, the Rocky Mountains experienced an historic snow drought, a worrying development for the tens of millions ...

As part of their joint activities, the partners plan to obtain the necessary permits, conduct geological exploration at promising deposits and establish modern mining and processing facilities based o ...

The Iran war is tightening global tech supply chains by cutting off helium from Qatar, a key source of the gas used in ...

The township of Ignace in northwestern Ontario agreed to become a willing host to the NWMO’s deep geologic repository (Photos/Images: NWMO) On January 5, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization ...