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

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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 ...

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Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

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

Scientists outline the urgency to better identify the significant damage sand extraction across the world heaps upon marine biodiversity.

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

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