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 ...

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

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 ...

In the coming decades, climate change is likely to lead to a loss of sea ice in and an influx of warmer water to the Arctic Ocean, affecting the ocean’s vertical circulation. Brown et al. recently ...

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 aerial view of the Archipelago Sea, a coastal region of the Baltic. Beneath these seemingly pristine waters lies a coastal ecosystem in crisis due to low oxygen levels. Credit: Kari Mattila, ...

A new community effort shows that Earth has lost 5% of its global glacier mass since 2000. The work highlights the necessity of spaceborne glacier observations and upcoming gaps in long-term ...

Measuring the movement and, most importantly, the deformation of continents is essential for improving the assessment of geologic hazards, such as earthquakes. To date, tectonic plate motions are ...

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 ...

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 bathymetry map, created by integrating many 3-D seismic surveys, reveals the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor in unprecedented detail. Above is a snippet of this map, roughly 220 kilometers wide, ...

In carbon storage experiments tied to geothermal power plants in Iceland, 90% of injected carbon dioxide (CO 2) transformed into minerals in just 2 years. Standard carbon storage methods can take ...