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Geology

July 2024

  • Natalie Anastasia Davies, writer in residence at Brimham Rocks.

    National Trust appoints first writer in residence at Brimham Rocks

    Natalie Anastasia Davies to create works inspired by the ‘mysterious rock formations’ at North Yorkshire site
  • Skeleton staff … Fern, the new bronze replica of Dippy, oversees the garden.

    ‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden

    It has giddying cliffs, three-billion-year-old rocks, a prehistoric forest – and a giant bronze dinosaur called Fern. Our writer hurtles back through millennia as the beloved museum’s five-year revamp comes to fruition
  • Stuart Crampin

    Other lives
    Stuart Crampin obituary

    Other lives: Seismologist whose research work helped to devise ways of strengthening reservoirs against earthquake damage

June 2024

  • Rock formations in Skazka Canyon, Kyrgyzstan

    Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

  • Taylor Swift performing at Murrayfield Stadium.

    Taylor Swift fans cause seismic activity in Edinburgh – but not as much as Harry Styles did

May 2024

  • A combine harvester in a field

    Can ‘rock weathering’ help tackle the climate crisis and boost farming?

    Trials show spreading basalt on farmland helps capture CO2 from the atmosphere and improves crop yields
  • The Mona Lisa

    Mystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims

    Ann Pizzorusso says she has tracked down the background landscape of the world’s most famous painting
  • Ogham stone

    Teacher finds stone with ancient ogham writing from Ireland in Coventry garden

    Exclusive: Sandstone rock featuring language markings created 1,600 years ago to go on display at museum

April 2024

  • A volcanic eruption in the 2022 Werner Herzog documentary, The Fire Within, about Katia and Maurice Krafft.

    Adventures in Volcanoland by Tamsin Mather review – fire and brimstone

  • man walks past sign saying 'nyc earthquake'

    Don’t stand in the door frame: what to do in an earthquake

March 2024

  • An azure lake sourrounded by steep mountains with snow-capped peaks in the background

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru

  • A sample from the Crawford sinkhole lake in Canada shows deposits some scientists argued should be the reference point for the start of the Anthropocene

    Geologists reject declaration of Anthropocene epoch

  • A composite image of Canterbury Cathedral floodlit at dusk and the Milky Way photographed from Mount Olympus in Greece.

    Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust

  • 270224 The Guardian - University of Auckland masters student Jaxon Ingold inside a lava cave at Ambury Regional Park in Mangere Auckland. Auckland's underground clusters of lava caves - with geological and social history. The caves have been used over the years as everything from Maori burial sites to mushroom farms, to housing a covert communist printing press. They form an expansive patchwork underneath the city, and now researchers are attempting to map them all, and in the process discovering a new cave roughly every month. Photo: Fiona Goodall

    What lies beneath: the hidden caves buried under Auckland back yards

  • Quest to declare Anthropocene an epoch descends into epic row

  • World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast

  • Scientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune

February 2024

  • Mounds of sand at the Sandy Heath Quarry in Bedfordshire.

    Country diary
    Country diary: This quarry will once again become the land of the living

  • A meteorite found in Norfolk.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Treasured gifts keep falling from the skies

November 2023

  • Diver explores the cathedral at Silfra fissure, adeep fault filled with fresh water in the rift valley between the Eurasian and American tectonic plates.

    Country diary
    Country diary: An underwater cathedral with sparkling char and neon-green algae

    Silfra, Thingvellir national park, Iceland: Life is hard here, but some organisms are finding a way to live in the gin-clear water
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