In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

Researchers identified 11 different interglacial periods, during which glaciers retreat and sea levels rise, over the past 800,000 years. Credit: Matito, CC BY-SA 2.0 This newsletter rocks. Get the ...

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 ...

Satellite images are revealing the scale of the destruction in Sri Lanka caused by landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah at the end of November 2025. At the end of November 2025, a “weak” tropical ...

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. When the poet William Blake ...

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 roughly 70-million-year interval of anomalously weak magnetic field during the Ediacaran period could have triggered atmospheric changes that supported the rise of macroscopic life.

A large landslide has destroyed a 662 m long highway viaduct in China. Over the last two days there has been considerable media coverage of a large, highly destructive rockslide that occurred at ...

Some videos have emerged from Afghanistan this morning, reportedly showing landslides and rockfalls triggered by the M=6.3 earthquake. At 12:59 am on 3 November 2025 (local time, which is 20:29 UT on ...

Callisto’s crater-covered surface may be hiding a liquid water ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 But evidence for Callisto’s subsurface ocean remained inconclusive, as the moon ...

If water is the key to life, then oxygen is the key to animal life. All animals breathe oxygen. Despite decades of research, however, scientists still don’t know when Earth’s atmosphere held enough ...