Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

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

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

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

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

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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Did you know the Earth has one global ocean that covers 71% of its surface? The ocean is divided into regions called the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian oceans. A sea is a big body of water, ...

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 ...