Earth Sciences News

The precious Antarctic ice undergoes a series of destructive crush experiments under the watchful eye of earthquake and rock physicist Prof Tom Mitchell

An annual event dedicated to recognising and embracing the diverse backgrounds of students, staff, and faculty.

UCL has been named the ninth best university in the 2026 QS World University Rankings, the third year in a row the university has held this position.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza (UCL Earth Sciences) explains how climate, ecology and evolutionary science have come together to reveal how pterosaurs learned to fly.

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Immi Garlick, a winner of the 2025 Space4Youth Competition by UNOOSA & SGAC, is conducting her thesis in our department on radar scattering from SWOT satellites. She is supervised by Dr Rosie Willatt.

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

A technique to cool the planet, in which particles are added to the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, would not require developing special aircraft but could be achieved using existing large planes, according to a new modelling study led by Alistair Duffey, our PhD student.

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine dwindling of dinosaur species, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.

Dr Penelope Wilson is an Undergraduate Tutor and Lecturer (Teaching) in Earth Sciences.

A team including UCL researchers has identified two new dinosaur species found in present-day Romania that lived shortly before dinosaurs went extinct.

Over 150 education and environment experts, led by UCL academics, have signed an open letter to Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education, calling for sustainability education to be a keystone of the Curriculum Assessment Review (CAR).

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.

A series of more than 100 small earthquakes in Surrey in 2018 and 2019 might have been triggered by oil extraction from a nearby well, suggests a new study by UCL researchers.

The MAPS Faculty Awards ceremony 2024 took place on the 9 December in the Haldane Room, Main Building, bringing together faculty members, students, and staff to celebrate a year of remarkable achievements within the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.