Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's water cycle. A massive ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

His quest to unlock the secrets of the Earth’s last unexplored frontier—its oceans—has received a major boost from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has selected Chirayath as one of five ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

The world's oceans are home to different habitats that capture and store carbon—known as "blue carbon." These include ...

The Ocean Photographer of the Year awards announced the winners of its 2024 contest featuring stunning images of underwater ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion ...

Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.