Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history ...

A team of biological, Earth and environmental scientists from North Carolina State University, Stellenbosch University and ...

New analysis of ancient fossilized rocks known as stromatolites, preserved in southern Zimbabwe, suggests strong links to hydrothermal nutrient recycling, 'meaning that early life may in part have ...

Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely solid. Instead, its center may be ...

Glaciers once inched toward the sea, gouging rocks. When the ice masses melted, they infused oceans with nutrients that may ...

With impending climate change, researchers fear history may repeat after they find tragic graveyards of penguins from the ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes.

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been ...

New research reveals how air pollution accelerates brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease through a chemical process called ...

A lack of monitoring and poor management could threaten much of what makes the Fraser River special, particularly its natural biodiversity and ability to respond to sea-level rise, warn a pair of SFU ...

The Kimberley, the northernmost region of Australia’s largest jurisdiction, Western Australia, is remote and difficult to ...