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Why isn't the darkest time of the year also the coldest?
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Meet FRED: The world's 1st-ever, nearly complete fossil database
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Where did the 1st seeds come from?
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Pangaea: Discover facts about Earth's ancient supercontinent
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'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago
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El Ojo: The mysterious floating island in Argentina's swampland that looks like a perfectly round eye
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'Missing link' found in ancient rocks of Colorado show that Snowball Earth really happened
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When was the last time Antarctica was ice-free?
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'Doomsday glacier' won't collapse the way we thought, new study suggests
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Earth from spaceHigh winds paint puzzling ice streaks across the sea in Antarctica
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1st map of Antarctica's green space unveiled. Here's what it shows.
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Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath Antarctic ice
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Giant river system that existed 40 million years ago discovered deep below Antarctic ice
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Blood Falls: Antarctica's crimson waterfall forged from an ancient hidden heart
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Antarctic ice hole the size of Switzerland keeps cracking open. Now scientists finally know why.
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'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?
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Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images
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Earth from spaceMassive blue 'melt pond' in Arctic glacier is an eerie sign of things to come
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Earth from space4 near-identical glaciers spark new life in Arctic island's 'polar desert'
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Earth from spaceIconic 'Star Trek' symbol shines brightly in sea of muddy Arctic sea ice
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Earth from spaceGhostly figure emerges in Greenland ice after underground lake collapses
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Gateway to the underworld: The enormous permafrost 'megaslump' in Siberia that keeps getting bigger
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Earth from spaceTrio of ringed ice caps look otherworldly on Russian Arctic islands
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Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' is growing a staggering amount each year
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Earth from spaceMysterious wave ripples across 'galaxy' of icebergs in Arctic fjord
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Global carbon emissions reach new record high in 2024, with no end in sight, scientists say
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Microplastics may be entering the clouds and affecting the weather, scientists say
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'We are teetering on a planetary tightrope': Cut emissions in half right now to prevent climate catastrophe, UN warns
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Fool's Gold is driving a new accelerating climate feedback loop in Canada
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30 years of polar climate data converted into menacing, 6-minute song
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'Precipitation, the source of all fresh water, can no longer be relied upon': Global water cycle pushed out of balance 'for 1st time in human history'
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Ancient piece of driftwood hidden for thousands of years could hold secrets for combating climate change
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32 weird ways to fight climate change that just might work
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Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change
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'Upwelling' deep in the mantle triggered magnitude 6.8 Morocco earthquake
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LA may be spared 'horrifying' fate of the 'Big One' from San Andreas, simulation suggests
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Will we have more earthquakes because of climate change?
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Huge earthquake 2,500 years ago rerouted the Ganges River, study suggests
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Why do earthquakes happen far away from plate boundaries?
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Odd earthquake swarm in Central Europe hints at magma bubbling below the surface
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Part of the San Andreas fault may be gearing up for an earthquake
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Rare magnitude 4.8 and 3.8 earthquakes rock Northeast, including Greater New York area
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Taiwan earthquake: 9 dead and dozens trapped after strongest quake in 25 years
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Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise
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Nuclear fusion reactor in UK sets new world record for energy output
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Massive hydrogen reservoir discovered beneath an Albanian mine could be an untapped source of clean energy
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What is fission?
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Wind and solar power overtakes coal for the first time ever in the US
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Chernobyl: The world's worst nuclear disaster
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How do you decontaminate objects exposed to radioactivity?
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Scientists discover enzyme that can turn air into energy, unlocking potential new energy source
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What is nuclear fusion?
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Evolution quiz: Can you naturally select the correct answers?
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Raindrops may have helped kick-start life on the planet
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Which animals are evolving fastest?
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'I have never written of a stranger organ': The rise of the placenta and how it helped make us human
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Ancient relative of 'living fossil' fish reveals that geological activity supercharges evolution
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How fast does evolution happen?
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Defense system common to all life came from 'Asgard'
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Evolution: Facts about the processes that shape the diversity of life on Earth
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What is the 'tree of life'?
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Meet FRED: The world's 1st-ever, nearly complete fossil database
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Pangaea: Discover facts about Earth's ancient supercontinent
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'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago
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'Missing link' found in ancient rocks of Colorado show that Snowball Earth really happened
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Did plate tectonics give rise to life? Groundbreaking new research could crack Earth's deepest mystery.
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What is plate tectonics?
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When did plate tectonics begin?
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Huge lithium deposits are in Nevada. Here's why.
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Hang Son Doong: The world's biggest cave, so 'outrageous in size' it fits 2 jungles and the 'Great Wall of Vietnam'
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Mouse brains, cannabis plants and spider eyes: 20 jaw-dropping images of the microscopic world around us
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'Loch ness monster' microbe stretches its neck to 30 times its body length in seconds
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'The most critically harmful fungi to humans': How the rise of C. auris was inevitable
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Hidden 'biosphere' of extreme microbes discovered 13 feet below Atacama Desert is deepest found there to date
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Scientists discover once-in-a-billion-year event — 2 lifeforms merging to create a new cell part
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Lost world of lagoons filled with mounds of microbes discovered in Atacama desert
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After you die, your microbiome cooperates with soil microbes to 'recycle' your body
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Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest
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Primordial steroids solve long-standing mystery about how the 1st complex life-forms evolved
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Where did the 1st seeds come from?
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Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests
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How is paper made from trees?
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Pando: The world's largest tree and heaviest living organism
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Deep below the Arctic Ocean, some plants have adapted to photosynthesize in almost near darkness
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Lost Biblical tree resurrected from 1,000-year-old mystery seed found in the Judean Desert
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Fossils from lush 53 million-year-old South Pole rainforest discovered in Tasmania
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Rainbow swamp: The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winter
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Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years ago
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What are the most polluted cities in the world?
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Pollution facts and types of pollution
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Even brief exposure to diesel fumes alters activity in key brain network, study finds
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Monet and Turner's atmospheric landscapes actually depicted air pollution, new study finds
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How Much Trash Is on Mount Everest?
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Hole in the ozone layer has grown for a 3rd year in a row — but scientists aren’t concerned
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No More Free-Pass for Carbon Pollution (Op-Ed)
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Kids' Mental Health Risks Rise with Poor Air Quality
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ReferenceLight pollution: Environmental impact, health risks and facts
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Earth is racing toward climate conditions that collapsed key Atlantic currents before the last ice age, study finds
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What's the difference between a tsunami and a tidal wave?
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Rain helps the ocean trap more carbon
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'We don't really consider it low probability anymore': Collapse of key Atlantic current could have catastrophic impacts, says oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf
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Diamond Beach: Iceland's spellbinding black sand beach covered in sparkling ice jewels
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Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,' leading climate scientists warn
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'An ancient, complex, and very serious game is going on': The weird ways creatures feed in the open ocean
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Earth from spaceDeep tidal channels cut between 'pirate hotspot' islands in the Bahamas
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Scientists are 'gobsmacked' by strange reversals in deep-ocean currents
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Tsunamis up to 90 feet high smash into New Zealand every 580 years, study finds
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1st mega-tsunami on record since antiquity was triggered by Tonga volcanic eruption
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Powerful 8.1-magnitude earthquake off New Zealand triggers tsunami warnings
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Magnitude-7.3 earthquake strikes Fukushima, tsunami warning issued
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Japan earthquake & tsunami of 2011: Facts and information
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'Invisible' earthquake caused mysterious 2021 tsunami, scientists find
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4-foot tsunami hits Tonga after explosive eruption of underwater volcano
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Lost islands beneath the North Sea survived a mega-tsunami 8,000 years ago
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Ice melt in Alaska threatens to unleash unprecedented 'mega-tsunami,' scientists warn
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Indonesia volcano eruption kills at least 10
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How a catastrophic volcanic eruption on the North Korea border created 'Heaven Lake'
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Mysterious 'blobs' in Earth's mantle are not what we thought, study claims
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'Every volcano has its own personality': Mystery Mount Adams earthquake surge under investigation
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Record spike in earthquakes at Washington's 'high threat' volcano sends researchers scrambling for answers
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'Mountain of God' volcano in Tanzania is bulging, study finds
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Tonga eruption that poured 150 metric megatons of water vapor into the stratosphere affected the atmosphere for years
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'This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend': Mountain that sank beneath the waves discovered off Canary Islands
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Earth from space'Smoking terror' volcano that destroyed city 400 years ago burps toxic cloud
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Why isn't the darkest time of the year also the coldest?
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Earth from spaceWatch Valencia disappearing under a sea of mud during deadly Spanish floods
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What is DANA, the strange weather phenomenon that has caused deadly flooding in Spain?
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What's the fastest recorded wind speed?
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Before and after satellite images show lakes appearing across Sahara after deluge of rain soaks desert
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Earth from spaceBizarre 'pet cloud' reappears above its favorite spot in New Zealand
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Conspiracy theory that Hurricane Milton was 'engineered' explained by psychologists
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Hurricane Milton is tied for the fastest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record. It could become the new normal.
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Here's why storm surge during hurricanes can be so catastrophic
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