As they marked the Season of Creation, Catholics in Africa celebrated the Congo Basin as the second "lung" of the Earth and called for its protection to fight climate change. The celebrations in an ...

It is the year 2050. The Blue Nile has almost run dry, starved of the rains at its source that were historically sustained by atmospheric rivers flowing from the Congo Basin rainforests. Nearly half a ...

The Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa is Earth’s African lung. With an area as big as Western Europe, it is the second-largest rainforest in the world. It absorbs 4% of global carbon dioxide ...

China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tanezrouft Basin – one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara Desert. Tanezrouft is a region of the Sahara lying in southern Algeria and northern ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University, along with their collaborators, have analyzed sediments from the ...

Basin Energy Limited ( ($AU:BSN) ) has provided an update. Basin Energy Limited has completed Phase 1 drilling at its Sybella-Barkly rare earth ...

National Earth Science Week encourages people everywhere to explore the natural world and learn about the geosciences. The University of Nevada, Reno's 19th annual Earth Science Week field trip and ...

In a harsh alpine desert, the Great Basin bristlecone pines abide amid climate change. Among them is the oldest tree on Earth. Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) trees, The Methuselah Grove ...

A research team has developed a tool that allows a 3D journey in ten sites of geological and palaeontological interest in the Guadalquivir basin (Huelva, Spain). In the virtual tour, developed with ...