Earth Science

As more carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, the world's oceans become more acidic, affecting the...

Plants and animals seem worlds apart, but in some important ways, we are more like plants than we realise...

Is earthquake prediction for California truly a problem beyond the powers of science, or is there something that...

First came fire. Cavemen rubbed sticks together and there it was, a source of ‘artificial’ heat and light, giving us...

Swine flu, SARS, Bird Flu, HIV, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Ebola - the human race is awash with new infections - but where...

What can microfossils tell us about past climate? Christopher Stanton resumes his story...

The buzz of a bumblebee is one of the quintessential sounds of summer time. But this ‘slender sound’ and ‘faint...

Recent Mars missions have produced compelling evidence for what was once a wet world, where life could well have...

The European Parliament voted recently to include CO2 emissions from the aviation industry in its carbon trading scheme...

What's the evidence that the world's becoming a warmer place, or are claims of climate change quite literally...

Snowflakes form when water vapour condenses directly into ice crystals, and for many years writers have used their...

Equivalent in land area to 14 Isle of Mans, or Rhode Island State twice over, the Louisiana Wetlands are one of the...

International Polar Years commenced in 1882-3, as the inspiration of Austrian explorer and naval officer Lieutenant...

The Pythia, the prophetess at the Oracle of Delphi, was said to be able to communicate with Apollo by going into a...

Climate change has been blamed with altering the environment – from animal migrations to sea level. Now it's also...

Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, although it’s almost impossible to escape from quicksand, it's...

What is a thunderstorm, how is lightning generated by clouds, how much energy is there in a lightning bolt, and could...

By now we’re familiar with apocalyptic visions of a scorched and flooded world ravished by global warming. But this...

As the world focuses on carbon dioxide, are more dangerous agents of global warming creeping up unnoticed? Lucy...

The world has heard much about the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 and the vast loss of life associated with this, but what...

When more news comes in of rising greenhouse emissions in Europe or more political backsliding over the Kyoto Protocol...

Underwater photographer Klaus Jost photographs the great white shark using a neoprene seal as bait in 'shark alley...

The marine ecosystem in Alask has undergone a dramatic ecosystem shift: over just 20 years, previously-abundant shrimp...