More than 350 million years ago something odd was going on with the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists now propose that...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, German scientists and surveyors crossed choppy waters and braved dangerous conditions on...
Efforts to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of oil and gas drilling are often focused on single measures, such as...
A new study of ancient ocean temperatures, published today in Science, shows that the deep North Atlantic Ocean was once...
An ozone hole, seven times larger than the Antarctic ozone hole, is currently sitting over tropical regions and has been...
A new analysis of observed temperatures shows the Arctic is heating up more than four times faster than the rate...
An international team of researchers has discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South...
For the first time, researchers can offer a strong quantitative definition for the start of what is known as the...
By firing lasers finer than a human hair at tiny grains of a mineral extracted from beach sand, Curtin researchers...
Parts of Portugal and Spain are the driest they have been in a thousand years due to an atmospheric high-pressure...
The imbalance of energy on Earth is the most important metric in order to gauge the size and effects of...
Intense heat in the southwestern United States broke records last summer partly because it hit in tandem with an unusually...
