The US West Coast is the world's worst mega-drying region. The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

The unique Earth observation satellite NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) will be launched through the GSLV-S16 on ...

The oceanic "twilight zone" lies deep, and teems with life. We look at how this mysterious zone affects climate change.

This is Earth's energy budget, and it's now well and truly out of balance. Our recent research found this imbalance has more than doubled over the last 20 years.

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or “The Great Dying,” this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark taxa ...