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Geology could crush hopes of extracting all North Sea’s oil and gas

The remaining fields tend to be smaller, more remote and more technically challenging to drill into

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025

The geology that holds up the Himalayas is not what we thought, scientists discover

A 100-year-old theory explaining how Asia can carry the huge weight of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau needs to be rewritten, a new study suggests.

LiveScience · Aug 30, 2025

Michael Waldman obituary

Other lives: Palaeontologist and geology teacher who discovered the first mammal fossil from the time of the dinosaurs in Scotland

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2025

Lake Natron: The caustic, blood-red lake in Tanzania that turns animals to 'stone'

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

LiveScience · Jun 6, 2025

Bahrain wins top prize at Venice Architecture Biennale with a pavilion tackling extreme heat

Titled "Heatwave", the Bahrain Pavilion's award-winning project addresses the issue of extreme heat by suspending a cooling ceiling over public seating.

Euronews · May 13, 2025

'The Big One' could rock the Pacific Northwest and fuel sea-level rise and massive flooding

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, but that could reverse in an instant.

LiveScience · Apr 30, 2025

1 billion years ago, a meteorite struck Scotland and influenced life on Earth

We’ve discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology.

The Conversation · Apr 28, 2025

Revealed! The world’s only four green sand beaches

Imagine a beach where the sand shimmers not in the usual shades of gold, white, or black, but in a striking, rare green. This extraordinary phenomenon exists in just four places on Earth, where unique geological processes have crafted a spectacle unlike any other. These green sand beaches owe their…

The Times of India · Mar 24, 2025

Rocks and racism? How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudice

Kathryn Yusoff sparked a culture war with her latest book, suggesting slavery and white supremacy informed the work of geology’s founding fathers. Here, she and other experts suggest that attitudes have changed little since

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2025

PUBG creator's goal for his new open-world project is to make "realistic Minecraft" complete with real geology

No wonder Brenden Greene's Project Artemis is still years away

GamesRadar · Feb 23, 2025