The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Thunderstorms are rare in the cold, dry Arctic, but a surprising event in August 2019 has scientists rethinking how these ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series ...

Chinese scientists' new acoustic technology could help detect submarines with near-perfect accuracy in the Arctic’s Beaufort ...

Trees are essential allies in the fight against desertification, pollution and climate change — and Delhi is currently conducting a massive tree census.

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March 2025 was another month of concern for the globe, with the second-warmest March ever documented while Arctic sea ice hit a new, record low. The correlation between the two is critical as sea ice ...

From the East a speech from a Russian leader hinting at carving up the Arctic and its vast mineral wealth with Moscow's new friends in Washington. Image: The US vice president and his wife arrive ...

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Alaska is an arctic and subarctic land mass of approximately 587,000 square miles, that is largely uninhabitable, or at least inhospitable through most of the year. Greenland is similarly arctic ...

While there has even been some talk of a military invasion, there are other ways America could gain control of the Arctic territory, such as free association, which is the ability to maintain self ...