A scholarly paper published last year described the discovery of several hundred noteworthy fossils from the Ordovician period, some 470 million years ago; their finds quickly became the subject ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has developed the National Aquifer Framework for naming and grouping hydrogeologic units from across Australia to address these jurisdictional differences. The framework is ...

NORMAL — Representatives of Illinois People's Action, a downstate faith and community organization, called for the advancement of legislation protecting the Mahomet Aquifer from sequestration ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — After the bill failed to pass last year, the plan to stop all carbon sequestration near the Mahomet aquifer passed unanimously out of the Illinois Senate Thursday.

Many eras of Earth’s history ended in severe biodiversity loss. About 443 million years ago, marine habitats shrank during the Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, removing roughly 85% of sea life. Near ...

Volleyball players took the top honours this year at the annual Cambrian College athletics banquet. Liam Hansen of Perth, Ont. was named Male Athlete of the Year, while Sudbury’s Mackenzie Selk ...

The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition was one of the most important periods in Earth’s history. Based on the analysis of lithofacies, mineral composition, total organic carbon major and trace elements, we ...

These scales were dated to the Ordovician period, making them about 450 million years old. It is not until the Age of Fishes in the Devonian (starting 419 million years ago) that fossil shark ...

The Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer is the only supply of drinking water for most of Spokane and Kootenai counties. It flows for about 370 square miles under North Idaho and Eastern ...

A New Quay teacher has said she thought she was going to die when an earthquake struck south-east Asia on Friday. Isabelle Willis, 26, has been living in Bangkok for six months and was in her ...

The aquifer beneath northeast Cape Coral has been running so low, for so long, the number of days a week residents can water their lawns may soon go from one to none. The Mid-Hawthorn aquifer, which ...