Geology in the News

Links provided by Rod Nenner, Ken Rock, Dan Teich, Harold Tuchfeld, and Bob Williams

A bronze medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics that started to tarnish within a few days after being awarded to Nick Itkin in foil fencing. Photo by Nick Itkin.

1/26/2025: Earth is bombarded with rocks from space — but who gets to keep these ultimate antiques?

1/24/2025: How the Largest Volcanic Eruption in Human History Changed the World

1/23/2025: Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon

1/23/2025: Scientists Who Found Mysterious ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor Plan a New Expedition, Hoping to Settle Disputes

1/22/2025: Ancient Ripples on Mars Reveal Evidence of Water from Billions of Years Ago

1/21/2025: Researchers discover pieces of an ancient planet buried deep within the Earth

1/21/2025: Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did. What Exactly Are These Odd-Looking Fossils?

1/20/2025: Paris Olympics Medals Are Tarnishing, Putting LVMH in the Spotlight

1/16/2025: Meteorite crashing to Earth can be heard for the first time ever because of a Ring camera

Fragments of a meteorite that hit a home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in July 2024. Photo credit: University of Alberta Meteorite Collection.

1/15/2025: Sound of meteorite striking Earth caught on doorbell camera (includes slow-motion video!)

1/15/2025: A Ghost Island Has Emerged From the Sea Overnight

1/14/2025: Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in an abandoned South Africa mine

1/8/2025: Nearly 200 Jurassic footprints unearthed on ‘dinosaur highway’

1/7/2025: NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth

1/6/2025: ‘Dinosaur highway’ from 166 million years ago is unearthed

1/1/2025: We finally know where to look for life on Mars