Mineral cave deposits from northern Siberia show that the region was permafrost free during the late Miocene period, when ...

The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three ...

Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, ...

Climate change heats not only the air and the ocean but also the soil, where key processes that determine fertility and ...

Using Earth’s glaciers as an analog, a new study explores the possibility of downward propagation of fractures and melt in ...

In temperate forests, the biomass-building benefits of warmer growing seasons are offset by damaging variability in winter ...

A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved ...

These findings suggest an explanation for the long-standing question of why Africa was such a weak carbon sink during the El ...

New satellite technology has revealed that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, an unexpected turn of events that could ...

Scientists find that water stress drives the connection between surface temperature and crop yield loss, providing ...

On 28 July, more than 170 researchers sent a letter to National Science Foundation leaders and Congress, urging them to reconsider the decision to terminate the lease of the Nathaniel B. Palmer ...