The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our oceans.

A research team led by a Keele scientist has shed new light on how a mysterious rock formation in Oman was created, which could reveal new details about Earth's ability to store carbon dioxide (CO2).

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

Young trees from Arkansas and Georgia are being planted in Louisville in hopes they will be better adapted to a warming climate.

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A better model for governance of the ocean commons can be found in the nuclear test-ban treaty agreed in 1963. Nobody could ...

The New Scientist Book Club enjoyed our February read, Tim Winton's far-future-set Juice. Head of books Alison Flood rounds ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.

New research shows climate change may push monarch butterflies farther south and make their long migration harder in the ...

What happens when major food-growing regions face drought at the same time? New research suggests that natural ocean cycles ...

In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.