Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect…
Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has…
Endurance, the wooden ship that Ernest Shackleton took to Antarctica in 1915, wasn't built to withstand frozen seas…
In her new book, earth scientist Anjana Khatwa writes a love letter to Earth's rocks and mountains, offering…
We have more satellites than ever before, but when they burn up they create a new kind of…
Lake Turkana in Kenya, known as the cradle of humanity, has shrunk in recent millennia – and the…
How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch –…
An expedition in the Red Sea found several brine pools that appear to be fed by underwater volcanoes,…
Sadly, we doubt you’ll be around for Pluto’s NYE party.
Many researchers thought that earthquakes in the Himalayas recur at regular intervals – but an…
Eruptions from volcanic arcs, found where tectonic plates converge, are one of the major drivers…
When rocks fracture in underground faults, they generate a variety of chemical compounds that could…
A carbon dioxide removal company in Canada is experimenting with ways to treat mining waste…