Rare earth elements’ (REEs) are not actually rare in the Earth’s crust, but their extraction and processing are challenging.

That's great for hydropower, recreation, and ensuring there's enough water for basic human needs—but how those dams affect ...

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

Scientists reveal that earthquakes generate electricity in quartz, explaining how enormous gold nuggets grow in deep rock fractures.

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

We are going back 55 million years. That was when Greenland and Norway began to drift apart, causing the Atlantic Ocean to ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

If the U.S. could tap into just 2 percent of the geothermal power beneath Earth’s crust, it could supply more than 2,000 times our total annual energy consumption.

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...