Earth Science News Articles

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

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide could lead to more clear-air turbulence, leading to bumpier and more expensive...

Physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences claim to have made the first detection of water dimers in realistic...

11,300-year data set shows global temperature will soon be setting records...

This month has seen the MARS2013 simulation underway in a desert in the Northern Sahara...

A team led by Paul Renne at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California have shed new light on the asteroid impact...

Does improved energy efficiency translate into a saving for the planet? Or does it just mean people use more resources...

Getting back to nature can boost mental agility and problem-solving powers, a new study has shown.

America’s Grand Canyon could be a lot older than previously thought – ancient enough that dinosaurs could have strolled...

South African dung beetles scuttling across scorching hot desert sands use their dung balls not just as food but also...

Changes in the gulf stream over the last 5000 years are destabilising trapped methane over at least 10,000 square...

A meteorite that fell to Earth in 2011 contains trapped samples of the Martian surface, interior and atmosphere.

What do aeroplanes, airships, rockets, guns and gas pipes have in common? They could all help to cool the Earth by...

Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned...

Massive landslides on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, as studied by the Cassini mission, can be "an excellent laboratory...

Research vehicles could be unwittingly moving species around the deep sea.

Increasingly warm summers in the UK have allowed a species of butterfly to expand their range by using a wider range of...

Writing in the journal Nature Biotechnology, scientists in Australia have bred a new strain of salt-tolerant wheat, by...

Global warming could cause Spring to arrive earlier in future years.

The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the...

Satellite tracking studies reveal shark behaviour isn't altered by free food handouts.