For most of us, Antarctica is a frozen white desert that is mysterious, remote and almost unfathomably cold. However, a ...

As Earth’s climate changes, one of the hardest things to figure out is exactly how the planet will change in response. And ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we meet a doula who is helping moms-to-be prepare for hazards like hurricanes ...

Evidence from fossil shells suggests that falling seawater calcium helped lock away carbon dioxide and helped cool Earth after the dinosaurs.

Life around the world has been feeling the effects of climate change, land degradation, deforestation, pollution and the overuse of water. Ultimately, most regions are using too much of their ...

Moisture extracted from the atmosphere of Mars could provide a valuable alternative water supply if humans are ever to ...

Twenty years since the Sheffield band released ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, it remains the bedrock of ...

Scientists have solved a 66 million year old mystery about why the earth cooled after the age of the dinosaurs.

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...