New Scientist - Environment

Earth’s core is oddly squishy and we may now know why

Earth’s iron-rich inner core may owe some of its surprising softness to the moti...

Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosa...

The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust...

Bits of an ancient planet called Theia may be buried in...

Two strange, high-density blobs buried more than a kilometre underground may hav...

Stunning image of South America's largest lake hides a ...

Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, the largest lake in South America, has been capture...

Iceland volcano: 15km magma tunnel under town threatens...

A 15-kilometre-long mass of lava has formed underneath the Reykjanes peninsula i...

Iceland volcano: Current cycle of eruptions could last ...

Iceland is bracing for a volcanic eruption, as thousands of small earthquakes ha...

Ice might be ubiquitous, but we are still discovering t...

Once seen as miraculous, these days ice is no longer extraordinary. But in a win...

Forget the Amazon – are these the most remarkable river...

When most people are asked to name a river, they often reach for the Amazon or N...

The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into...

Some 550 years ago, a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro set out to create a world ma...

Dead spacecraft are seeding the upper atmosphere with m...

The stratosphere seems to be full of aluminium particles and other metals that c...

Iceland volcano: Watch the Fagradalsfjall eruption live

Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano, located on the country’s south-west Reykjanes ...

China started drilling ultra-deep holes in 2023 in a hu...

A drilling project in the Taklamakan desert is aiming to reach more than 11,000 ...

We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

Scientific bodies are due to make an official decision in the coming year about ...

World's first tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash u...

In Iceland, scientists are planning to drill two boreholes to a reservoir of liq...

Siberia’s mysterious exploding craters may be caused by...

Several enormous craters left by explosions have been spotted in Siberia over th...

Lithium mining looks set to reshape Bolivia's Salar de ...

Photographer Matjaz Krivic has been charting the effects of lithium mining on lo...

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