Hidden Water Found on Hawaii’s Kilauea Could Mean Explosive Eruptions By Yasemin Saplakoglu Water on Kilauea could trigger more explosive eruptions.
The Key to Life's Emergence? Bubbles, New Study Argues By Isobel Whitcomb They just want to create order in this chaotic world.
Why Is There So Much Oil in the Arctic? By Emma Bryce Beneath the Arctic lie billions of barrels of oil. But as the international energy race intensifies, we wonder, how did all that oil get there in the first place?
July May Have Been the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, UN Says By Brandon Specktor Following the hottest June ever recorded, July 2019 may have been the single warmest month in history.
Greenland Lost 217 Billion Tons of Ice Last Month By Rafi Letzter The worst day of melting was July 31, when 11 billion tons of melted ice disappeared into the ocean.
After Scorching Europe, Heat Wave Is Poised to Melt Greenland By Mindy Weisberger Heat that shattered records in Europe this week is on the move.
The Ice Is Melting Even Faster Than They Thought By Rafi Letzter A new study shows that the ice at the bottoms of submerged glaciers could be melting 100 times faster than anyone thought.
Civilization-Collapsing Megadroughts of Medieval Times Could Be in Store for a Warming Earth By Charles Q. Choi From the 800s to the 1400s, about a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest, and all lasted longer than a decade.
Today's Climate Change Is Worse Than Anything Earth Has Experienced in the Past 2,000 Years By Rafi Letzter The global climate is changing more now than at any point in the plast 2,000 years. The Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period were nothing like this.
So Much of the Arctic Is on Fire, You Can See It From Space By Laura Geggel Wildfires burning large swaths of Russia are generating so much smoke, they're visible from space, new images from NASA's Earth Observatory reveal.
New Footage Shows Uncontacted Amazon Tribesman from the World’s 'Most Threatened' Tribe By Yasemin Saplakoglu A bare-chested Amazonian tribesman sniffs a machete, looks toward the camera and then disappears into the foliage.
The First Glacier Killed by Climate Change Is Getting a Haunting Memorial in Iceland By Brandon Specktor "We know what's happening and what needs to be done," the haunting letter to the future reads. "Only you know if we did it."
Massive Snow Cannons Could Save West Antarctica's Ice Sheet By Mindy Weisberger Tons of snow made from seawater could stabilize failing ice.
Last Month Was the Hottest June on Earth Ever Recorded By Kimberly Hickok Do you feel hot? Because it's been really, really hot.
Gorgeous, Freaky Sunset Photo Looks Split Down the Middle By Mindy Weisberger Though it looks unnatural, this photo wasn't created with filters or Photoshop.
Earth's Core Has Been Leaking for 2.5 Billion Years and Geologists Don't Know Why By Laura Geggel Earth's scorching core is not a loner — it has been caught mingling with other, underworldly layers.
We Finally Know Why Florida's Coral Reefs Are Dying, and It's Not Just Climate Change By Rafi Letzter Hot water is killing Florida's coral reefs. But it's not the only factor bleaching them white.
Joshua Trees Will Be All-But-Extinct by 2070 Without Climate Action, Study Warns By Brandon Specktor More than 80% of California's iconic Joshua trees are likely to die at the hands of drought and fire over the next 50 years — but there's still time to save them from extinction.
The Marshall Islands Are 10 Times More 'Radioactive' Than Chernobyl By Laura Geggel Radioactivity still lingers more than 60 years after atomic weapons, including the hydrogen bomb, were tested in the Marshall Islands.
What Is the Ionosphere? (And Who Is Steve?) By Nicoletta Lanese A concentration of plasma in the Earth's atmosphere, called the ionosphere, interacts with solar winds, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves.
