A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow macaroni either. If one looks closely, the east coast of North America is ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Some consider the resulting meat — known as Hákarl by Greenlanders — a delicacy. “Apparently it tastes like a very ripe ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

DR DIVA AMON:So while we may think that the deep ocean is this alien, remote place' it is absolutely fundamental to us being here on planet Earth. And yet we've only explored about 1% of it.

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.