The lovelorn nostalgia and mystical voyeurism of an extraordinary correspondence return in the latest edition of the Griffin ...

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how water shaped Earth’s evolution three billion years ago ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

Sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and eastern tropical Pacific are hovering between 28°C and 30°C, while some areas in the western Pacific have exceeded 30°C.

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Antarctica's ice sheet formed millions of years before the Arctic froze over, at a time when Earth was around 50°C (90°F) ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

The air around us may look empty, but it's constantly moving, carrying smoke across oceans, desert dust between continents, ...