One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

Melting glaciers in Greenland are unleashing hidden methane and shifting soils from carbon sinks to warming sources.

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...

Climate change is coming… but what on Earth can we do about it? Scientist Dr. Kimberley Miner has written a guide to riding ...

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

For centuries, glaciers have sat like frosty crowns atop slumbering volcanoes, keeping Earth’s fury tucked safely beneath ...

July 9 will be one of the shortest days ever, as Earth is spinning faster and scientists are still working to understand why.

Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Glacial retreat caused a wave of volcanic activity in southern Chile as the last Ice Age came to an end, according to new ...