Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have concluded that droughts and floods around the world are increasingly ...

Earth’s slow axial wobbles—known as precession cycles—do not just shape long-term climate trends. A new study led by ...

Half a century ago, Peter Jensen launched Project Censored, in part as a response to how the Watergate break-in was covered. Richard Nixon didn’t censor the initial reporting, but he didn’t have to.

Understanding how water moves through the Earth system is fundamental to predicting climate impacts and ensuring sustainable ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.