Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

Oxford/DCU survey research finds 69% of citizens in countries across the global South, North, East and West support the ...

Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.

Researchers have uncovered key insights into the dangerous phenomenon of 'river avulsion,' offering a way to predict when and where rivers may suddenly and dramatically change course.

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

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A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Excavators have begun clearing land in the Indonesian region of Papua in what’s been described as the largest deforestation ...

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...