Geology in the News

Links provided by Laura Dwyer, Jim Hird, Jurate Landwehr, Rod Nenner, Ken Rock, Gary Roskin, Dan Teich, and Harold Tuchfeld

12/28/2025: Critical minerals are hiding in plain sight in U.S. Mines

12/28/2025: Skier glides down Mount Etna as volcano erupts in the background

12/26/2025: How Earth endured a planet-wide inferno: The secret water vault under our feet

12/22/2025: New Eyes on One of the Planet’s Largest Submarine Landslides

12/16/2025: Coal or Diamonds in Your Stocking?

12/16/2025: This rare earthquake did everything scientists hoped to see

12/12/2025: New fossils in Qatar reveal a tiny sea cow hidden for 21 million years

12/11/2025: Scientists find a massive hidden CO2 sponge beneath the ocean floor

12/8/2025: Scientists uncover a volcanic trigger behind the Black Death

12/5/2025: A huge helium shortage is looming — but ancient rocks in Earth's crust may be hiding massive reservoirs

11/30/2025: Climate change, aging farmers endanger Japan's "Rolls-Royce of pearls"

11/29/2025: Miners discover a 37.4 carat diamond that is half pink and half colorless

11/25/2025: The world’s little-known volcanoes pose the greatest threat

11/14/2025: Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland’s glaciers

11/17/2025: A gulf separating Africa and Asia is still pulling apart — 5 million years after scientists thought it had stopped

11/07/2025: Interior Department releases final 2025 List of Critical Minerals

10/17/2025: 'Urban geology': How to find fossils (and other discoveries) in your city's buildings

4/18/2024: Cutting a 294-ct Trilliant Morganite: An Interview with Steve Moriarty