Earth Science

Iceberg A68a—currently the world’s largest iceberg—is rotating and possibly moving in a westerly direction away from…

Using radar and other ice-penetrating instruments, scientists have detected a “fossil lakebed” preserved beneath the…

Last summer, researchers anchored underwater listening devices to the bottom of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic. Now,…

The world’s biggest iceberg—called A68a—is heading directly towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, where…

A gigantic pool of magma emerged beneath Earth’s surface following the impact event that wiped out all non-avian…

A once-in-a-century “climate anomaly” exacerbated the awful conditions along the Western Front in Europe during the…

New research suggests Hranice Abyss—the world’s deepest freshwater cave—is around 0.6 miles (1 km) deep, which is…

A dust cloud began to drift across the Atlantic last week. It’s a development that could stall the formation of…

Ice in the polar regions has been under assault from rising ocean and water temperatures. While human-driven climate…

Whoa, here’s something you certainly don’t see everyday: A large chunk of land fell into and temporarily drifted…

When the dinosaur-snuffing asteroid hit Earth some 66 million years ago, it produced a subterranean pool of magma…

When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth, it struck at an angle that maximized its destructive…

Satellite images have captured the result of a lake of lava collapsing on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, revealing an…

Two years ago, a severe storm in Argentina produced hailstones reaching 9 inches wide, prompting meteorologists to…

Scientists have compiled the most comprehensive map yet of tectonic stress magnitudes across North America,…

Without plate tectonics, our planet wouldn’t have continents, mountains, and possibly even life itself. New evidence…

Scientists are attributing the 2018 Kilauea eruption, which destroyed hundreds of homes on Hawaii’s Big Island, to a…

Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano began erupting this past weekend. On Saturday, it spewed a stream of thick, white…

During the Cretaceous period, a balmy forest grew less than 600 miles from the South Pole, according to new research…

The ozone hole is the problem that never seems to ever go away. And now it turns out we have a second one to worry…