Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...

Chemical signatures of marine organisms reveal that seasonal sea ice, not a massive ice shelf, persisted in the southern ...

Scientists use a large suite of simulations with an established climate model to predict the Pacific Decadal Oscillation up ...

Data captured by the Emirates Mars Mission reveal that clouds are typically thicker during Martian nighttime than daytime.

Federal flood measurements often don’t match what people see in their communities. Scientists have created a hyperlocal ...

A new model shows how coal seam gas extraction causes land to sink by linking groundwater loss and coal shrinkage, helping ...

Warming of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) subtropical lower stratosphere is due to slowing of Brewer-Dobson Circulation, thus ...

Corals can be used as a proxy: They build themselves in alternating dark and light bands that, like trees, correspond to ...

A bottom-up modeling approach could bring scientists closer to understanding communities of microbes in the atmosphere.

Human-caused climate change has pushed the onset of fire season in the state to as much as 46 days earlier than it was 30 ...

A new study maps how microseismicity waxes and wanes with pressure in enhanced geothermal systems, offering a template for managing quakes in future heat-mining projects.

Some of the iron emitted by industrial activity in East Asia is carried by winds into the North Pacific, where it nourishes iron-hungry phytoplankton.