
Russian Scientists Stationed at Lonely Arctic Outpost Now Also Surrounded by Bears
The imprisoned boffins have run out of flares to scare away the bears.
The imprisoned boffins have run out of flares to scare away the bears.
Say hello to Vize Island, Russia. It won’t be around much longer.
It’s not something that’s been added to the lake that caused the change: it’s something that’s been taken out.
Italian researchers used MH370's confirmed debris locations to estimate where the missing airliner might have crashed.
An exhaustive attempt by researchers to find a single untouched space on planet Earth has yielded no results. Sorry, folks, everything is ruined now. Read more >>
A new report sheds light on the strange matter.
Whoa, did you feel that earthquake? Even if you didn’t, your phone did.
For years, the term “Anthropocene” has been used to informally describe the human era on Earth. But new evidence suggests there’s nothing informal about it.
What lies beneath the deep blue sea? So much more than you might think. Here's the most complete ocean floor map we've ever made. Read More >>
The ocean, like the rest of Earth’s climate system, is changing — and not for the better.
The tropics are already hot year-round, so a few extra degrees shouldn’t make much of a difference, right? Wrong.
A tropical forest unearthed on the arctic island of Svalbard could help explain one of the most dramatic climate shifts in Earth’s history.
If the new hypothesis is correct, it could mean better prospects of finding other rock-and-ocean worlds throughout the galaxy.
Let’s explore the milestones we’ve hit and the science we’ve accomplished while probing this hellish greenhouse sauna. Then we’ll discuss why it’s time to go back.
73,000 years ago, the eastern flank of Cape Verde’s Fogo volcano collapsed into the sea, kicking up an 800-foot wave.
We’ve all heard tales of the giant asteroid that did in the dinosaurs, but the demise of the crocodilians was far less dramatic. The crocs were picked off quietly, as our planet cooled off and dried up over the course of millions of years.