Miners in Botswana have uncovered an extraordinary gemstone that has captured the attention of gemologists worldwide. The 37.41-carat natural diamond discovered at the Karowe mine features a rare ...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years ...

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies a complex and extensive volcanic system. More geological changes are occurring at Yellowstone National Park, as another hole forms in one of the park's basins.

Around 510 million years ago, after a major gap in the geologic record, the world flooded. This gap, known as the Great Unconformity, starts at different ages in different places, but it always ...

If you see a small plane flying low over your community in the next few months, it just might be the U.S. Geological Survey doing some long-overdue mapping. Specific to Connecticut, this aerial ...

The field’s governing body ratified a vote by scientists on the contentious issue, ending a long effort to update the timeline of Earth’s history. By Raymond Zhong The highest governing body in ...

A “supergiant” gold ore deposit under an existing gold mine in China could be the world’s largest gold ore deposit. Officials estimate that the extent of the find could be 1,100 tons stretching as ...

Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient seas could have weighed 20,000 pounds ...

List of Afghan riches runs from gold and cobalt to lapis lazuli and copper. WASHINGTON June 14, 2010 -- U.S. geologists have concluded that Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries after 30 ...