Environment

Earth is coated in ancient space dust that could be fro...

A 33-million-year-old layer of Earth's crust is laced with helium-3, which is no...

Tonga volcano unleashed underwater flows that reshaped ...

The destruction of telecommunications cables during the eruption of Hunga Tonga-...

Sea level may have been higher than it is now just 6000...

Climate researchers thought that current global average sea levels were the high...

Rare Australian pink diamonds emerged when a superconti...

Understanding how the world’s largest-known collection of pink diamonds came to ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Iceland volcano: Watch the Fagradalsfjall eruption live

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

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

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

We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

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

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