UK police confirm a body found in Romania is believed to be 18-year-old British student George Smyth, who went missing while hiking in November.
Spain's Río Tinto features striking red waters and high acidity caused by ancient geology, extremophile microbes, and thousands of years of mining, serving as a key research site for NASA.
A fracture in the Earth's crust in the eastern Himalayas poses a significant threat to a major hydropower project's infrastructure. Scientists urge engineers to enhance slope stability and implement protective measures against landslides and collapses due to the active Paizhen Fault.
Coober Pedy in South Australia has evolved from a 1915 opal discovery into the world's largest producer of precious opal, with residents adapting to extreme desert heat by living underground. The town features dugout homes, underground churches, restaurants and hotels carved into sandstone, with the first underground church built in 1967. Today, visitors can tour underground homes, mines and churches, experiencing a settlement designed for survival in harsh outback conditions.
The man, who was working in geology for a Russian company in Africa, expressed gratitude for the timely rescue and revealed his intention to return to his work after undergoing rehabilitation
