A groundbreaking study reveals that South Africa's rising landmass isn't due to volcanic activity, but rather the Earth's ...

Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

The Antarctica ice sheet saw accelerating loss of mass over 20 years, but then the trend suddenly reversed say scientists. So, what happened?

Mysterious features on the surface of Venus might suggest that there is activity under its surface, scientists have suggested ...

Carbon Brief explains what the new UK solar geoengineering research programme consists of and explores the concerns ...

Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk ...

One of the world’s most widely cultivated edible mushrooms, Lentinula edodes - or shiitake - has a lesser-known British ...

Since President Trump took office in January, environmental information, including climate-related data has been scrubbed ...

The Fingerprints Climate Change Leaves Behind A top climate attribution scientist helps journalists understand and explain ...

A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, "Marie Curie" fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the University of California, Irvine, and an associate member of the Institute of Polar ...

The resulting graph, called the Keeling Curve (after Charles David Keeling, the scientist who kicked off the effort) is a ...