An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...

The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, on the Bering Peninsula in Alaska, is currently above sea level. Credit: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Today the Bering Strait is a ...

The ocean has helped mitigate global warming by absorbing around a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, along with more than 90% of the excess heat those emissions generate. This ...

As climate change warms the Arctic, permafrost is thawing, and carbon trapped within the soil is moving into the atmosphere. Permafrost stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, but the degree to ...

Around the world, phytoplankton in the upper ocean help to cycle key nutrients and regulate Earth’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide. These photosynthesizing organisms rely on dissolved iron as an ...

Claudia Alexander, who oversaw the dramatic conclusion of the Galileo mission to Jupiter and was the NASA project scientist for the international comet-chasing Rosetta project, died of breast cancer ...

Rock glaciers are debris landforms found in many mountain ranges on Earth. They represent the movement of permanently frozen ground over long periods of time and can be used to understand how climate ...

An artist’s concept depicts what the Earth-analogue planet might look like, with the white dwarf star in the background. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Earth’s future is bleak. At best, ...

A photograph taken near the town of Popoyo, Nicaragua, during a post-tsunami survey following a Mw = 7.7 earthquake that struck Nicaragua’s Pacific coast on 1 September 1992 local time. Here ...

A new community science project brings together the Cowichan Tribes, the provincial government of British Columbia, and scientists to study the Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo' (Koksilah River). Credit: David ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In Switzerland, a dramatic rock slope failure is developing above ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, seen here in an artist’s concept, has been orbiting Mars since 2014. Credit: NASA/GSFC Mars’s current atmosphere is downright tenuous—conferring less than 1% the pressure of ...