An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to make the first observation of water...

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.7 on March 28, 2025, caused buildings to collapse in Myanmar and Thailand, with fatalities...

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Over 20 years, heat-related mortality has increased by 30%. In July 2024, more than 120 people died from heatstroke in...

In January 2025, the largest fire in U.S. history occurred. Other infrastructure destruction is linked to the land sinking in...

Researchers have found that Earth's days once became longer by more than two hours because the moon shifted thousands of...

Antarctic currents, which supply 40% of the world’s deep oceans with nutrients and oxygen, are slowing dramatically. Other models show...

The Earth’s sea levels are rising, damaging the livelihoods and infrastructure of coastal communities around the world. Agencies and organizations...

The number of dead and injured birds is estimated at first thousands. Heroic volunteers, veterinarians, and volunteer assistants washed more...

A new physics model suggests that meltwater from thawing permafrost on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula could release methane gas sources at...

ESA's Sentinel-1 detects retreating Arctic glaciers. As Arctic temperatures rise, glaciers that end at sea, particularly in places like Svalbard,...

The director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research warned that precipitation, the source of all fresh water, can...

What is the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is essentially a dirty ball of ice, made...

Climate change is affecting salmon migration. Coral die-offs off Australia in the summer of 2024 are linked to rising Pacific...

One of the most pressing issues in the Arctic today is recognizing a bear's entry into a populated area as...

Reindeer are expanding their range northwards. This could harm some species, such as the northern caribou. In recent decades, Taimyr...

The spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud is virtually invisible. Its particles are spread so thinly and so far...

The eruption of Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki Laki stratovolcano has killed at least 10 people on the island of Flores after...

To date, the Shiveluch volcano is known to have erupted in 1790, 1854, 1879-1883, 1896-1898, 1905, 1927-1929, 1944-1950, 1964, 1980-1981,...

Two powerful earthquakes in eastern Cuba have caused landslides, damage to homes and power lines, and residents of the affected...

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of...

The rushing water turned narrow streets into death traps and created rivers that tore through homes and businesses, sweeping away...

A family of primitive asteroids is giving astronomers a window into the past as they seek to unravel the history...

Climate change could trigger giant, deadly tsunamis from Antarctica, a new study warns. Sediment shifting beneath the Antarctic seabed could...

NASA's new NEO Surveyor spacecraft will search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to our...

Dimorphos is a moon of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This binary asteroid system was previously visited by NASA's DART spacecraft,...

The Draconids meteor shower will reach its peak activity today, on the night of Wednesday, October 9. The number of...

Scientists have discovered an unexpected new continent hiding beneath Greenland. Zealandia, thought to be a candidate for Earth's eighth continent,...

NASA considers the summer of 2024 to be the hottest to date. July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on...

Scientists from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI RAS) have discovered a harmful increase in the biological...

Isotopic analysis of rocks near the Andes glaciers has shown that these glaciers have become smaller than at any time...

The Volgograd Region in the Russian Federation has been named one of the most desertified territories in Russia. In just...

Researchers used more than 120 years of data to understand how melting ice, depleting groundwater and rising sea levels are...

Decreasing oxygen levels in water pose a critical threat to nature and society on Earth. On average, lakes around the...

Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun’s supersonic “solar wind,” a stream of energetic particles that flows into...

Boris hit central and eastern Europe, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and flooding. The storm also hit parts of Austria,...

NOAA Is Rewriting the Book on How to Rank Solar Storms: The Capabilities, the Science, and Our Understanding of the...

The shift from El Niño to La Niña has made for longer, more severe hurricane seasons. This year’s hurricane season...

Energetically extreme fires have a huge impact on the Earth system, releasing huge plumes of smoke into the atmosphere comparable...

Wildfires in Canada have emitted more CO2 than almost all of the world's countries combined in a year. They have...

Marion Island's wandering albatrosses can't protect themselves from an invasive mouse population that's eating the birds alive, but conservationists say...

The Sun scoops up rogue planets as they fly by. The Sun is capable of capturing both small planets and...