SAN FRANCISCO — Humans drive trillions of miles in cars, clear-cut forests for agriculture and create vast landfills teeming with tin cans, soda bottles and other detritus of industrialization.

The way the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sees it, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is “championing awareness of Earth’s geologic eras,” according to a department press release. This ...

This image is taken from the Geologic Time Viewer, a project presented last week at MIT, which shows how materials created over millions of years in geologic time are now a part of our everyday lives.

Humans drive trillions of miles in cars, clear-cut forests for agriculture and create vast landfills teeming with tin cans, soda bottles and other detritus of industrialization. There's no doubt that ...

This story originally appeared on Fusion and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The 1950s. To many Americans, the decade signifies a sort of "Pleasantville"-era jam packed ...

Standing on the bank of the Alabama River last week, a few miles downstream from the Claiborne Dam, paleontologist Martin Becker held a small but perfectly preserved snail fossil just plucked from the ...

A TERRESTRIAL globe, believed to be the largest yet prepared to show both orographical detail and the distribution of the main geological formations, was formally installed in the Geological Museum at ...