Earth Science News Stories

How rising Antarctic winds are boosting ocean temperatures...

Holes in the Antarctic sea ice have been forming for decades, and are a mystery to science.

If countries increase their commitment to climate action, large cities could save thousands of lives.

Destroyed structures have been found as glass particles in sand.

Meet T-Rex's pint-sized ancestor, revealed after twenty years of mystery...

How much do plastic bags break down in three years?

Renewable energy offers a better pathway to tackle climate change than capturing CO2, according to a new study

Lab-grown meat: should we 'steak' our future on it?

Bacteria may be tricking animals into eating microplastics

New techniques make carbon capture 24% better...

Scientists learn more about how a Martian mountain formed...

Desalination plants are pumping out 50% more toxic brine waste than previously thought...

Rare pigments found clinging to the teeth of a 1000 year old skeleton are enabling scientists to paint a colourful...

Fossil flowers from 200 million years ago discovered in China...

Mass coral bleaching in 2016 has affected the fierce butterfly fish.

Using data gathered by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Satellite (GRACE) from 2002 to 2016, a team at NASA Goddard...

Or do we have to choose?

How the building blocks of life might have formed

Scientists have discovered the key reefs that could save other reefs from destruction...

Debris swept away by the 2011 Japanese tsunami has carried hundreds of new species across the Pacific Ocean to the...

Scientists have a new best estimate for our remaining carbon budget, but does this bring new hope?

Previous laboratory estimates of tectonic plate strength have failed to match estimates of strength from real world...

The largest volcanic range on Earth lurks below an ice sheet in Antarctica, according to researchers at The University...

Researchers at the University of Stanford have found that as oil fields age they can produce up to ten times more...