Locate construction materials such as sand and gravel. Identify groundwater aquifers. Provide data about subsurface stability and risks. Evaluate sites for waste disposal facilities. Locate natural ...

It isn’t too late to bring the planet back into balance. Researchers make unbelievable 770,000-year-old discovery in the ...

The Department of Geology has changed its name to the Department of Earth Sciences to better reflect the breath of its work.

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

If Northwestern students want further evidence of climate change, they have to look no further than Northwestern’s very own glacier. The late Northwestern professor and geology chair Ulysses S. Grant ...

Also, various scientific instruments will be installed which can tell what changes are taking place in the glacier lakes,” he said. Former scientist from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology ...