The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Ottawa provides a series of highly detailed 3D models of the Earth's ...

Deadly and destructive, earthquakes remain unpredictable, but faster models that look beneath the ground, can help better ...

Already, the Earth is experiencing the impacts. An October study from this year revealed that California’s glaciers have ...

Beneath nearly two million square miles of Pacific Ocean lies a landmass larger than Greenland—one that remained hidden from ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

Since 2006, the project has photographed 17,000 species in the world’s zoos, aquariums, and wildlife sanctuaries.

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

Humans are gambling the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean acidity was yet another key planetary threshold to be breached. A team of global ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...