Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Ethiopia's Hayli Gubbi volcano erupts after 12,000 years, sparking fears of a prophesied Earth cycle shift, confirming ancient texts, and threatening local livelihoods in the Afar region.

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

Colorado residents could be paying a lot more for home energy, following the state’s decision last week to turn away from ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

The living architectures of corals harbor rich biodiversity, but they may also have played, over geological time, a central ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Université Grenoble Alpes have found that the Earth system flips between two ...

In a region already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing.

Leading US scientists and engineers have published a 200-page report, "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars," ...

Could the hidden seas of icy moons occasionally boil beneath kilometers of ice? Recent modeling suggests that, given just the right orbital and geological conditions, subsurface oceans on small outer ...