Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...

The Gulf of Panama’s seasonal upwelling failed in 2025 for the first time in at least 40 years, breaking a long-standing ocean pattern.

Beaver-built wetlands can store carbon in stream sediments up to 10 times faster than unmodified waterways, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research that positions the rodent engineers as ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

Climate scientists say many of the effects of climate change are happening faster than they predicted, the latest on the war ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Several of the Earth’s systems are changing faster than predicted as global temperatures rise, scientists say.

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Friday, March 20, 2026 (at exactly 10:46 a.m. ET), marks both its triumphant return in the Northern Hemisphere and the spring equinox. Get ready for longer days, warmer weather, a ...

From freshwater providers to cultural touchstones, a look at the many changing identities of glaciers.

We are roasting out here. This is not normal. Or at least it wasn’t normal in the past. The heat wave is happening because of a bizarrely strong ridge of high pressure in Earth’s atmosphere. The ridge ...