Rio Tinto has held talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about developing one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium ...

Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living ...

Katie Kitchpanich, like most of us, feels like she’s dealt with a lot over the past few years. The coronavirus pandemic, ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.

Workers pull all-nighters to remove boulders on Highway 140 along the Merced River between Mariposa and El Portal ...

The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

Farrington noted that another rock slide closed Highway 120 into Yosemite National Park last year. In fact, many of ...

Curiosity rover cracked open a Martian rock, revealing a sight never before seen on Mars - a dazzling display of yellow ...

North Tongass Highway will stay closed in the Wolfe Point area for the rest of the weekend as the debris slope from ...

In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small ...

These are unconsolidated sand and gravel deposits, most of which were deposited during the ... and metamorphic (gneiss, etc.) rock. Almost everywhere, this bedrock is fractured due to the many ...