A team of researchers have found evidence that climate change on a global scale took place about 13,000 years ago, caused by a flood of biblical proportions.
Previous research had suggested that a massive outpouring of water from glacial Lake Agassiz in Canada may have travelled down the St. Lawrence eastward and out into the Atlantic […]

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A University of Manitoba researcher is one of an international team of geologists who have announced the discovery of what may be evidence of the oldest complex life formed on Earth. They found fossilized microorganisms that were deposited in ancient marine sediment about 3.2 billion years ago.
“These are the oldest large microfossils with significant implications […]

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A lack of atmospheric oxygen helps explain why some of the world’s largest mineral deposits came to rest where they did some 2.7 billion years ago, geological scientist Andrey Bekker and his colleagues report in the November 19th issue of the journal Science.

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Carnegie Museum of Natural History has announced Dr. Frank Hawthorne of Winnipeg, Manitoba as the recipient of the 2008 Carnegie Mineralogical Award. The award will be presented by Dr. Samuel M. Taylor, Director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, on February 14th at the 2009 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.

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