Beneath the waves some 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, there’s a hidden world of giant canyons and extinct volcanos…
By trapping bubbles of atmosphere as it freezes, ice imprisons the climate secrets of Earth’s past. The trick is…
Scientists think they’ve figured out how pyroclastic flows, fast-moving bringers of death during volcanic events, can…
At one of the most important ancient graveyards on Earth in North Dakota, paleontologists unearthed the fossilized…
On November 11, 2018, a deep rumble ricocheted around the world, one that humans couldn’t feel but that registered…
For about six to 12 hours as the sun dips low on the horizon in the late spring and early summer, an Antarctic ice…
Scientists observed waterfalls forming simply through the movement of water downhill in a new laboratory study—a result…
When Kate Smith brings her samples into the lab, she has to wear a special suit. Even a speck of dust brought in on her…
In the 18th-century English ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a storm drives a sailor’s ship toward the South…
In California, a wet winter no longer protects landscapes from the kind of intense wildfires the state’s been…
Antarctica is huge, stretching nearly 3,500 miles at its widest extent. Despite its enormous size, however, the frozen…
Kilauea’s largest eruption in at least 200 years may be over, but scientists are still learning about how it reshaped…
Solidified lava from ancient volcanoes, over a mile thick, covers a portion of west-central India nearly the size of…
An Antarctic ice shelf that’s been cracking up for years is now very close to giving birth to an iceberg roughly 30…
The glaciers blanketing the high mountains of central Asia are smaller than we thought, according to a new analysis…
Greenland is rapidly melting. Blame it on climate change. This is no good news, but a new paper points out an…
It’s no secret that Earth’s ice sheets are shrinking as temperatures rise. But this planetary meltdown isn’t just a…
Scientists hope to employ networks of “dark fibers,” unused fiber optic cables, in order to sense sound waves moving…
Researchers used a grainy photograph of a toppled train combined with an eyewitness account to analyze the deadly…
The one thing we humans have done an incredible job of leaving behind is plastic. Microplastics, in particular, are…
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