A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is. Some 4 billion ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...

Global warming, with its long summers and increasing number of droughts, is introducing a new climate in the Amazon ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

"When nearby supernovas occur in the future, the radiation could have a pretty dramatic effect on human society." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address ...

"Earth Day has always been an event of the people." On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across the globe celebrated the very first Earth Day. The idea was sparked by the power of the anti-war ...