earth sciences

An individual involved with an international expedition to study the effects of climate change in the Arctic has…

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A large monitoring station used to gather important scientific data in the Baltic Sea has mysteriously vanished.

The global reach of human-caused climate change, and the breakneck speed at which it’s happening, is unparalleled…

If you thought the heat wave-induced melting of half of Greenland’s surface last week was alarming, wait until you…

January 2019 is nearly over and—for now—so is the month-plus federal government shutdown that blanketed national…

New research suggests that much of the material that made life possible on Earth arrived after a cataclysmic…

This week in the city of Westbrook, Maine, a huge, rotating circle of ice formed on the Presumpscot River. While it…

The entire southwest flank of Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano is missing, as new radar imagery suggests. The…

The solar panels stood tall against the icy expanse as the four-person team approached on snowmobile. GZ20 hadn’t…

Greenland may look like a big solid hunk of ice. But hidden beneath that shiny surface, the truth is a bit more…

The 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday is…

New research into a strange atmospheric effect known as STEVE has failed to associate its enigmatic lights with…

It’s been around 100,000 years since California’s Long Valley supervolcano experienced a major eruption, but this…

Three months and countless Olympic swimming pools of lava later, Kilauea seems to have pressed the pause button on…

If the past year of floods, fires, heat waves, and droughts are any indicator, climate change is going to be rough.…

Folks, climate change is still out here messing things up. It brings me no pleasure to report this.

It’s been a minute since we checked in on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, but the pyrotechnic wonder that’s given us blue…

It was a year ago at this time that Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf gave birth to Iceberg A-68, one of the largest…

In 2016, remarkable sounds below the range of human hearing reverberated through the crater of a volcano in…