New research looks to improve prediction of brief but intense rainstorms that can cause devastating flash floods and landslides. The...
Elderly people living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD)—which involves extraction methods including directional (non-vertical) drilling...
Glacier ice is usually thought of as brittle. You can drill a hole in an ice sheet, like into a...
A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world’s deadliest mass...
Researchers have discovered what appears to be the earliest known account of a rare weather phenomenon called ball lightning in...
Urban greening is unlikely to provide a single fix for tackling extreme weather events brought on by climate change, scientists...
Strict COVID-19 lockdown policies such as workplace closures in European cities reduced levels of air pollution and the number of...
The Atlantic Ocean was born roughly 200 million years ago when the supercontinent Pangea began to break apart. As continental...
New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geological time were carved away by...
Storms over the waters around Antarctica drive an outgassing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new international...
Water quality in rivers is affected by underpinning ‘natural’ hydrogeological and biogeochemical processes, as well as interactions between people and...
The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said,...
