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'It would be a disaster': Ammunition for war is putting the Caspian Sea on the brink of collapseInterview Live Science spoke with professor of civil and environmental engineering Amir AghaKouchak about the reasons behind the Caspian Sea's stark decline over the past three decades.
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'Darwin’s hypothesis provided an important inspiration': Scientists bolster 150-year-old Darwinian theory with a carnivorous plant in ChinaResearchers have confirmed that a plant native to alpine regions in southwest China is carnivorous, supporting a Darwinian theory from 1875.
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Microbial DNA hidden under Antarctica offers new clues about how the continent’s mysterious Blood Falls came to beBrine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says.
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Once a 'miracle in the desert,' California's Salton Sea now spreads toxic dust on vulnerable communitiesInterview Medical anthropologist Ann Cheney speaks to Live Science writer Sascha Pare about the heavy toll toxic dust from California's largest inland lake takes on marginalized communities.
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Greenland meltwater will drive a 'strong weakening, but not a shutdown' of key Atlantic currents, study findsNew modeling suggests meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet has a big weakening influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but the runoff likely won't cause a complete and irreversible collapse.
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Heaven Lake: China's deepest lake sits atop a colossal volcano and belongs mostly to North KoreaIncredible Places Heaven Lake is a body of water located 7,200 feet above sea level at the top of a volcano. It is the deepest lake in China as well as the highest and largest crater lake in Northeast Asia.
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Scientists are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm to protect the species from extinctionResearchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could preserve the DNA for decades until we need it, an expert said.
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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgsResearchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas.
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First experiment to thicken Arctic ice with seawater shows promise — but there's a big catchResearchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question mark over how scalable this method is.
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Socotra Archipelago: The Yemeni islands covered with astonishing cucumber, bottle and dragon's blood treesIncredible Places Socotra Archipelago in the Northwest Indian Ocean is home to hundreds of animal and plant species that aren't found anywhere else in the world.
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Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign importsMost proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.
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'Unequivocal evidence' of Earth's oldest impact crater turns out to be off by half a billion yearsA new study updates the age of Earth's oldest known meteorite impact crater, the North Pole Dome crater, which scientists previously claimed was 3.47 billion years old.
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Watch bison herd defend a newborn calf from wolf attack in a primeval Polish forestResearchers have captured first-of-its-kind footage of a wolf attack on European bison in the Bialowieza Primeval Forest. The recording shifts our understanding of predator-prey interactions in this region.
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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impactInterview Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI's environmental footprint, about this technology's staggering energy use and what users can do to limit their impact.
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Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion peopleAn abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests.
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'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study findsThe San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found.
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'I never thought we'd see one alive': Elusive goblin shark captured on camera for the first timeResearchers have filmed goblin sharks in the deep sea for the first time. Until now, these sharks had been seen alive only after being hauled up to the surface with fishing lines.
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Scientists discover giant, fan-shaped structure deep beneath the East Antarctic Ice SheetA mysterious geological structure that resembles a human hand with outstretched fingers has been revealed beneath East Antarctica. The discovery shows the frozen continent still hides many geological secrets.
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Sea ice loss in the Arctic has triggered a critical tipping point that's destroying the food chainResearchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly started dropping due to a drastic reduction in sea ice extent.
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Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient rivers around 3.6 million years ago.
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War has brought Iran's water crisis to a breaking point: 'Things will collapse unless there is meaningful structural change'Science spotlight Iran is experiencing "water bankruptcy" that stems from decades of broken water governance and aggressive policies, and the current war is exacerbating the crisis.
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Fingal's Cave: Scotland's 'cave of melody' where eerie echoes bounce off pillars of solidified lavaFingal's Cave is a hollow inside the Scottish island of Staffa that is characterized by massive, interlocking hexagonal columns of volcanic rock and astonishing acoustics.
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The Appalachian Mountains hold enough lithium to make 500 billion cellphones, researchers discoverResearchers with the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the ancient Appalachians mountain system holds 2.5 million tons of the critical element lithium.
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Scientists discover deadly, highly venomous box jellyfish near Singapore's 'Island of Death Behind'Researchers identified a new species of box jellyfish and recorded a surprising range expansion for the Thai sea wasp after analyzing the morphology and DNA of a handful of jellies in Singapore.
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