Becky Oskin

The discovery of two lakes hidden beneath the Greenland ice suggests that climate change cuts to the bottom of the ice sheet.

Melting glaciers pose another threat beyond sea level rise. They will dump massive amounts of organic carbon into the world's oceans, altering ecosystems.

The massive Heart Mountain landslide in Wyoming raced to its final resting place on a cushion of carbon dioxide gas, similar to a hovercraft gliding on air, a new study suggests.

Two new maps available for free download considerably improve estimates of land dedicated to agriculture, and provide the first global overview of field sizes.

Global temperatures in 2014 shattered earlier records, making 2014 the hottest year since 1880.

Today (Jan. 16), climate scientists are expected to announce that global temperatures in 2014 shattered earlier records, making 2014 the hottest year since 1880.

Researchers are tuning in to urban seismic noise, the man-made signals from human activity, to view geologic structures and track the rhythms of cities.

A small part of the San Andreas Fault thought to quietly slide without shaking its neighbors may be capable of magnitude-6 earthquakes, a new study finds.

Researchers in remote East Antarctica think a massive area of fractured ice discovered last month could be a newfound meteorite impact crater.

The Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, planned to launch on Jan. 29, will improve drought tracking in the United States and around the world.

Researchers have discovered a group of female phorid flies that bite off ant heads and then haul them away for dinner.

Lake Erie's double ecological disasters may share a common ultimate cause, but they form under different conditions, a new study finds.

A hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, well in Ohio triggered scores of small earthquakes in March 2014, including one large enough to be felt in nearby towns.

Researchers have charted the bowhead whale's genome in a search for genes that fight off aging.

Scientists say the chance of every volcano erupting at once is so small that it's impossible, but what if it did happen? Would Earth as it now exists survive?

A look at five places that will help push 2014 into the global warming record books.

California and Nevada will feel an Arctic chill this week when wintry air from Canada arrives on New Year's Eve, possibly setting new record-cold temperatures as revelers ring in the New Year.

As the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami approaches on Dec. 26, greatly expanded networks of seismic monitors and ocean buoys are on alert for the next killer wave.

Caltech professor Don Anderson died of cancer on Dec. 2, but he had the last word. Literally.

Football, NASCAR and their rowdy, roaring crowds were pitted in a head-to-head battle this year to see which sport hits highest on the seismic charts.

The "atmospheric rivers" that can bring torrential rains to Northern California will double in frequency by the year 2100 because of climate change, researchers say.

Greenland's disappearing ice shifted gears in the past decade, switching from shrinking glaciers to surface melting, researchers reported at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting.

Boulders the size of stretch limousines were moved by storm waves during Super Typhoon Haiyan.