A previously overlooked factor—the position of continents—helps fill Earth’s oceans with life-supporting oxygen. Continental movement could ultimately have the opposite...
Decarbonization scenarios produced by BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Equinor are incompatible with Paris Agreement goals for a safe and...
Large wildland fires commonly burn in sub-Saharan Africa from August to October, late in the dry season. In Botswana, a...
It’s not just the land that is groaning under the heat—the ocean is also suffering from heatwaves. In the Mediterranean...
The Tibetan Plateau, known as the “water tower” of Asia, supplies freshwater for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream....
With an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste escaping to our oceans each year, plastic pollution adversely affects...
More than 5 billion people would die of hunger following a full-scale nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, according...
Considering numerous variables, tropical cyclones are rarely alike. While tropical cyclones are rated for their wind speed, it is important...
A new study has found dry lightning outbreaks are the leading cause of some of the largest wildfire outbreaks in...
Over the last fifty years, disasters caused by landslides and floods have become ten times more frequent, despite landslides being...
New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were...
A new Nature Geoscience study from The Australian National University (ANU) offers further clues about what happened to the Mediterranean...
