Scientists have made a key breakthrough in the quest to accurately predict fluctuations in the rotation of the Earth and so the length of the day - potentially opening up new predictions for the effects of climate change.
Scientists have made a fascinating new discovery about the formation of mineral deposits crucial to our transition to a ‘green economy’.
North Carolina State University researchers used satellite imagery and field sensors to estimate worldwide changes in plant leaf growth due to global warming.
In the study of human impact on the environment, there are few negative or stabilising feedbacks on climate change.
According to the Spanish Journal of Paleontology, the dinosaur extinction was related to the Jenkyns Event, a global event that depleted the world of oxygen.
A team of scientists from China and Yale University have found evidence detailing a direct link between Baltica and Laurentia, a pair of supercontinents that existed during the Meso to Neoproterozoic Era.
Blooms of marine organisms transfer loads of atmospheric carbon into the deep ocean
New studies confirm mid-Cretaceous volcanism caused ocean acidification
New model considers full history of a fault’s earthquakes to forecast next one
UCLA researchers say climate change could accelerate slightly if dust levels stop climbing
One in 10 nursing homes in U.S. coastal regions is at risk of exposure to severe hurricane-related flooding.
The Moon was a lot closer to Earth 2.46 billion years ago, and the shorter distance contributed to shorter days.
Deep under the South Pole sits an icebound forest of wiring called IceCube. It’s no cube: IceCube is a hexagonal formation of kilometer-deep holes in the ice, drilled with hot water and filled with electronics. Its purpose is to pick up flickers of neutrinos—ghostly little particles that often come from space and phase through Earth with hardly a trace.
About 47 million light-years from where you're sitting, the center of a black-hole-laden galaxy named NGC 1068 spits out streams of enigmatic particles. They're neutrinos -- otherwise known as the elusive "ghost particles" haunting our universe while leaving little trace of their existence.
Climate change will reshape ecosystems worldwide through two types of climate events: short-term, extreme events — like a heat wave — and long-term changes, like a shift in ocean currents. Ecologists call the short-term events “pulses,” and the long-term changes “presses.”
Earth is constantly being bombarded by meteorites—from nearly invisible, dust-sized particles to large impactors that have changed the trajectory of life on our planet
Rondaxe Lake in Herkimer County, New York, represents classic Adirondack Park waters. But over the last quarter-century, Rondaxe – like thousands of lakes in temperate zones around the world – has been losing a global-warming battle to maintain oxygen in its waters.
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun.
Two spinner dolphins died from toxoplasmosis after becoming infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, according to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Health and Stranding Lab.
Waikīkī Beach is at the center of Hawaiʻi’s tourism hub, with a valuation of $2.2 billion, according to a 2016 study.