Scientists have long debated whether most of Earth's vital liquid was delivered via icy comets or was homemade ...

Deep-sea mining is an industry that has drifted between science fiction and reality for almost a century. A recent Executive ...

Simulations suggest that two enormous masses of hot rock have been involved in generating Earth’s magnetic field and giving ...

The planet has always changed. Ice ages came and went, oceans rose and fell, climates shifted over geological timescales.

An analysis of peatland soil samples and satellite images has found that wildfires on Alaska's North Slope are more frequent and severe now than they were at any point over the past 3,000 years.

The mechanisms underlying two important phenomena in the Archean—the emergence of continental crust and the presence of an exceptionally strong geomagnetic field—remain poorly understood. Notably, ...

The proposal involves a flexible underwater barrier 80 kilometers long and over 150 meters tall, engineered to block warm ...

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes ...

The disruption of a current that carries heat north from the tropics would make much of the world hotter, while turning Iceland into “one giant glacier.” ...

Researchers have long believed that a sudden, massive deluge filled a dry, salt-filled Mediterranean some 5 million years ago ...

The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate ...

With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice ...