A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically different atmosphere.

For the iwi, protecting the burial site is about more than its archaeological value. It holds deeper significance through its ...

What if the most breathtaking places in the U.S. aren’t on travel blogs or bucket lists? What if they’re quiet, glacial ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

NASA satellite data have revealed that Antarctica experienced a surprising ice mass gain between 2021 and 2023, despite ...

As climate change drives rapid glacier retreat, scientists are sounding the alarm on a new threat: increased volcanic ...

South Carolina's coast is sinking, putting historical sites in Charleston and across the Palmetto State squarely in the cross ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt, causing seas to rise and displacing coastal communities, a ...