An ancient impact left a scar deep under the North Sea. Credit: Paopano – stock.adobe.com Craters formed by asteroid impacts are ubiquitous on rocky bodies, and our planet is no exception. Researchers ...

The upper part of the catchment above Dharali after the 5 August 2025 disaster. Image copyright Planet, used with permission. Image copyright Planet, used with permission. Image dated 11 September ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

Researchers warn that preventable heat-related deaths will continue to rise with continued fossil fuel emissions.

Researchers used paleoclimate data, modeling, and measurements of sea surface temperature to learn more about future climate. They used the Western Pacific Warm Pool, seen here in 2016, as a reference ...

Heat waves, such as the record-breaking Siberian heat wave in 2020, are having lingering impacts on Arctic ecosystems. Credit: Andrei Zverev/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 Now Kwon et al. suggest that the ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this image of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in 2021. New experiments might help scientists identify exotic forms of ice present in Ganymede’s interior and brought to the ...

Around 1.1 billion years ago, the oldest and most tectonically stable part of North America—called Laurentia—was rapidly heading south toward the equator. Laurentia eventually slammed into Earth’s ...

Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. Ecological forecasting is crucial for proactive environmental management and policy-making. In 2001, Clark ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for its newsletter here. A pair of new ...

High biomass levels make the Palmer Deep submarine canyon in Antarctica a preferred foraging site for penguins, such as these off Anvers Island. New research investigates the origins of this biomass.