This initiative supports current UNESCO and International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) priorities to strengthen geoscience research, capacity-building, and international scientific cooperation.

Not many people know that, a few decades ago, the International Geoscience Programme contributed to the creation of medical geology, a discipline which seeks to understand the impact of the natural ...

Physical geography and environmental geoscience encompass the study of Earth’s surface and the dynamic interactions among its spheres—the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere.

The majority of hydrogen in Earth’s core is likely to have been incorporated during the planet’s formation, rather than through comet impacts, according to the results of laboratory experiments ...

The Council for Geoscience (CGS) expanded its strategic scientific asset base through the acquisition of a diamond core drill rig named “Green Mamba”, which symbolises strength, accuracy, and ...

A new study led by researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has for the first time mapped the long-term, large-scale transport pathways of ...