The oceanic lithosphere, which constitutes the top layer including Earth’s crust and mantle below the oceans, has long intrigued scientists...
The U.S. Southwest has been suffering a drought that began at the close of the 20th century—now officially known as...
The sea ice around Antarctica likely had a record low surface area when it was at its maximum size this...
Enforcement is one of the biggest challenges to international cooperation on mitigating climate change in the Paris Agreement. The agreement...
The Gulf Stream transport of water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with...
The Western United States is losing its glaciers. A new inventory from Portland State University researchers show that some glaciers...
A new study shows unprecedented heat is likely to lead to the next mass extinction since the dinosaurs died out,...
Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters...
The Earth’s crust continued a slow process of reworking for billions of years, rather than rapidly slowing its growth some...
A new research paper published in Science Advances reveals how changes in the size of the Yangtze River watershed may...
Climate change has made extreme weather events more frequent and intense worldwide. Some examples of climate-related disasters in recent years...
The world’s first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades...
