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 ...

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

The Mackenzie River Basin is one of the world’s last great wild river systems, covering about 1.8 million square kilometers ...

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 ...

The International Continental Scientific Drilling Project of the Songliao Basin has revealed crucial information for understanding past and future climate trends and for sustainable exploration of oil ...

The presence of mysterious ‘dark earth’ across sites in the Amazon point to ancient practices that can inform modern efforts to combat the climate crisis. Ancient Amazonians may have intentionally ...

Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) trees, The Methuselah Grove icontains some of the very oldest trees on Earth. Credit – Oke. CC SA 3.0. In a harsh alpine desert, the Great Basin ...

Magnet rare earth mineralisation returned from four of eight scout holes. ・Drilling returned additional shallow magnet REE ...

In the Atchafalaya Basin—the largest river swamp in the U.S.—ancient cypress trees act as natural barriers against hurricanes and extreme weather. Spanning a million acres, these nearly indestructible ...

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 ...