Earth Science News Stories

This week an explosion and fire in a mine in Turkey claimed almost three hundred lives. But why are explosions such a...

Corals can adapt to tolerate higher ocean temperatures that could accompany climate change, scientists have shown.

What causes the phenomenal natural light show that is the Northern Lights?

Wind turbines play a key role in tackling climate change, but now it seems they may also be able to mitigate hurricanes...

British Antarctic Survey researchers have seen evidence of emperor penguins searching out new breeding grounds...

Crowd funding programmes have raised money for Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to monitor carbon dioxide...

This week the Michigan town of Hell froze over - but why are temperatures plummeting across America?

Will use of renewable energy take off in 2014?

How much energy is generating using renewables?

Chemistry data from plankton shells could boost historical climate records

A map tracking deforestation and tree replanting has been produce by Google, NASA and the University of Maryland...

There's a lot of traffic on it's way to the little red planet right now. Why?

Australian archaeologists have found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre long.

fifty-five million years ago, the planet suddenly warmed. But why? New evidence suggests a huge release of carbon...

New research suggests that global warming trends are being disguised by historical CFC emissions...

Close study of the genome of the oil palm tree could result in significantly increased palm oil yield.

Capturing carbon dioxide and storing it could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but how safe is it?

Changes deep in the Earth's core are changing the Earth's rotation and affecting how long days are.

Fire-fighters were killed in Arizona this week tackling a wildfire that got out of control. But how do blazes like this...

Manganese leaching from lava stones around Mt Etna could explain a high incidence of Parkinson's disease in the...

Ice age plant samples have been recovered from polar glaciers and brought back to life after 400 years in the deep...

A mile-wide tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma this week. Here's the Quickfire Science on these destructive...

Water that hasn't seen the light of day, or had contact with the Earth's atmosphere, for 2.5 billion years...

The Kepler satellite has announced this week the best possible candidates for habitable planets around distant stars