Earth Science News Stories

Canada's landmark Gwaii Haarnas National Marine Reserve will protect not just the seabed but the mountains that...

Drug-resistant superbugs have been found inside sharks and fish showing that our flushed medicines are making their way...

Researchers at Michigan State University have made a discovery that could help turn the burning bush into the saviour...

The world is still losing biodiversity at an alarming rate despite world leaders promising in 2002 to cut the rate of...

Researchers this week have presented, for the first time, a record of Asian Monsoon data stretching over 700 years. The...

Suzanne Smrekar and colleagues have been studying Venus using an instrument on the ESA Venus Express mission and found...

This week astronomers have solved a long-running debate over the nature of the surface of our neighbour planet, Venus,...

Scientists claim to have solved "the faint Sun paradox", which says that the Earth's temperatures have...

Geologists around the world have the electronic equivalent of a glass to the wall, listening to vibrations from...

A paper published in the journal science shows that pollution in Asia gets pushed up into the stratosphere by hitching...

Scientists have found evidence for a magnetic field around the Earth at least 250 million years earlier than previously...

Millions of tonnes of methane locked up beneath the shoreline of Siberia are becoming unstable and escaping into the...

Scientists photograph erupting underwater volcano for the first time...

Human ancestors used fire to improve stone tools as much as 164,000 years ago...