Earth Science News Articles

A 460 million year old fossil of the oldest and largest species of marine scorpion has been discovered, measuring...

Five hundred year old graffiti provides clues about how society was impacted by climate change.

Even if we could remove large volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, our marine life may still be in danger...

The earliest evidence of the Earth's magnetic field has been uncovered in Australian rock samples dating back 4.4...

Work has begun on what will become one of the world's largest modern wooden buildings. So why the wooden...

Arctic sea ice may be more resilient to changes in climate than we previously thought...

Clouds formed by plankton are much brighter than those formed by pollution and could be used to help combat climate...

Pits dotted across the surface of comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko point to a hollow interior, according to new data...

Evaporating water can be used as an energy source to generate electricity using bacterial spores found in soil.

By applying designs from nature to engineering problems, your heating bills could be reduced as nature-inspired designs...

Bleached Caribbean corals compromise on greedier temperature-resistant symbionts...

A 'super-Earth' water planet could actually be volcanic, changing our understanding of volcanism and plate...

That the Earth's Moon owes its origins to a cosmic collision four-and-a-half billion years ago seems increasingly...

Living in an area with high pollution levels could lead to increased stroke and anxiety risk.

Kites flown over Hawaii are teaching scientists about the history of Mars.

Snowfall in Antarctica will increase due to global warming, but this could make the ice melt faster, scientists in...

Scientists have caught a glimpse of the underside of a tectonic plate...

Humidity and temperature are key factors in the ability to form complex tones.

Herculaneum scrolls read for first time in 2000 years thanks to X-ray technology.

Space ice contains the chemical building blocks for life

Plastic debris adrift in the Earth's oceans poses a very real threat to both marine life and human health.

The environment people live in can predict their religious beliefs, says biggest global study of its kind.

Lightening strikes will happen twice as often as climate changes, says new Californian research.

A "drought emergency" in California, but how much is climate change to blame? Research from Stanford...