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Folklore uncovers a tsunami that rocked Hawaii hundreds...

A story passed down in folklore led scientists to evidence of an 8-metre tsunami...

Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton...

Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic ex...

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us f...

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destro...

We may have solved the mystery of what froze Earth's in...

A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may ex...

Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in adv...

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed...

Ocean acidification is reaching deeper waters

Rising carbon dioxide levels are driving an increase in the ocean’s acidity – an...

Iceland’s Reykjanes volcanic eruption captured in stunn...

A new volcanic eruption has occurred on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, the seven...

What ancient stalagmites can tell us about life on a ho...

Wildfires are already changing as a result of climate change but we don’t know w...

Monitoring ocean chlorophyll could reduce impact of war...

How chlorophyll data from satellites is helping scientists understand and mitiga...

Why scientists scanned giant hailstones in a dentist's ...

A high-resolution view of hailstones the size of tennis balls can reveal how the...

The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but th...

Geologists surprisingly declined to formally declare a new epoch, but proponents...

The most powerful images of the natural world from 2024

A large number of damaging and deadly hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires,...

Supersized snowflakes: A scientific quest to make enorm...

New Scientist embarks on a quest to make record-breaking snowflakes. This is our...

Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth's ice ...

In the new photographic collection Our Frozen Planet, Michael Hambrey and Jürg A...

Zooplankton research highlights key role in marine carb...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Eart...

Kenneth Libbrecht: How to grow a perfect snow crystal

The largest snow crystal ever measured was 10 millimetres across. Ken Libbrecht ...

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