1+ day, 47+ min ago  (395+ words) Stone lifting | A good result | Gorton and Denton lessons | Metres v millionsI must disagree with Prof Gray (Letters, 20 February) as to the origin of the rounded shapes of the boulders used in the ancient sport of stone lifting in Ireland....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (165+ words) Ice Memory Foundation's specially dug "sanctuary' offers storage for cores, which hold thousands of years of history Last month the Ice Memory Foundation opened the first ever sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, where samples will be stored for…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (240+ words) Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber During the "snowball Earth" period about 700m years ago, Earth's climate shut down. The planet was encased in ice and insulated from seasonal variations: spring, summer,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (275+ words) Wold Newton, East Yorkshire: On a dreary day in a nondescript field, I visit the site where a 4.56 billion-year-old bit of space rock came to Earth On a low rise, beyond a screen of trees, behind a small holiday park…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1130+ words) Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don't yet fully understand the consequences On one side of Dr Ben Galton-Fenzi's view across the vast Totten ice…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (822+ words) Government poised to officially protect 200,000 hectares of remote Patagonian coastline and forest Chile's government is poised to create the country's 47th national park, protecting nearly 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of pristine wilderness and completing a wildlife corridor stretching 1,700 miles (2,800km) to the southernmost tip…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (361+ words) Black Diamond Pool eruption provides dramatic footage after being captured on official camera A hot spring in Yellowstone national park that erupts sporadically was captured on an official camera exploding in spectacular muddy plumes at the weekend. Volcanic experts at…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (217+ words) Video shared by the US Geological Survey on social media shows mud spraying up and out from the Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone national park. Other recent eruptions have mostly been audible but not visible because they happened either at…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (221+ words) Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano have drifted over Yemen, Oman, India and northern Pakistan A volcano in Ethiopia's north-eastern region has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to nine miles (14km) into…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (90+ words) Do you know your ores from your orcs? Your rare earths versus Middle-earth? Test your knowledge here " Do you know your ores from your orcs? Are you more familiar with rare earths or with Middle-earth? We're hearing a lot about…...