Most concerns about melting glaciers focus on how they contribute to rising sea levels, but scientists are now lookin...

All icebergs aren't white after all.

An iceberg in the waters off Antarctica shows its true blue colours and one in more familiar garb. Alex Cornell Iceb...

Forget climate change, have we already so degraded land and freshwater systems that we have put the viability of life...

A graphic illustration of how volcanoes create new land.

Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan on The Dish for linking to this wonderful footage of lava cooling as it hits the ocean off...

The first study to identify which fossil fuels should stay in the ground to keep the global temperature rise below 2º...

What caused these curious sinkholes?

Aliens, government conspiracies, meteorites, missile explosions, or even an elaborate prank – these were some of the ...

Process has been a mystery, until now.

The Earth's tectonic plates began to move thanks to the eruption of continents that pushed them apart, scientists at ...

The Asian monsoon is much older than we thought, which means it was going strongly when carbon dioxide levels were ne...

Oceans can't be relied upon for ever.

As we've been pointing out for some time now, the oceans have been doing the heavy lifting in removing extra heat fro...

… although you might have heard otherwise. Over the past decade, scientists have been puzzling over an apparent "paus...

Giant river prawns from northern Australia face threats from dams to climate change. Richard A. L...

Daly River is home to Macrobrachium spinipes, a giant freshwater prawn. – Amy Kimber A town of 454 people, Daly Rive...

In most places on Earth, there are two high tides each day.

It’s early January, and the Sun is blazing. Sweltering in the hottest week of the past 100 years, temperatures well a...