Gairloch Museum plans to build the new route to the village's Carn Dearg Youth Hostel. Roy Macintyre, one of those leading ...

New geological trail proposed on Scotland’s most famous road trip route - Visitors can explore the oldest rocks in western ...

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

This report provides an assessment of both the demonstrated and underdeveloped potential of the deep-time geologic record to inform us about the dynamics of the global climate system. The report ...

In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

To understand evolution, humans must think in much larger units of time than those we use to define our lives. After all, evolutionary change isn't apparent in days, months, or years. Instead, it's ...

Bruce Bjornstad has loved rocks since he was a kid, growing up on the East Coast. But his real love and expertise is the Missoula Floods — cataclysmic events that scoured the Columbia Basin and laid ...

Ever since our ancestors ventured onto the African savanna, human beings have searched, explored, and wondered about the world. Today, science is the vehicle that takes us along a path toward ...