Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

The "Future Earth" initiative was proposed based on this recognition, at the RIO+20 conference in 2012, led by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and became fully operational in 2015. Based ...

Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

Below, a map created using 2022 data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows the deposits of rare earth elements located in Latin America and the Caribbean. USGS lists all known rare earth ...

The map above, based on the most recent ... to hold a 50 percent stake in Ukraine's rare earth mineral deposits as compensation for both past and future U.S. military support.