The youngest era in the lunar geological timescale, the Copernican period, is estimated to have commenced approximately 1.1 billion years ago and is n…

Early Holocene retreat of an ice shelf in East Antarctica was linked to ocean-driven forcing enhanced by ice-sheet meltwater from adjoining regions, as unveiled through the integration of proxy record...

Antarctic ice cores provide a unique archive of Earth’s atmosphere and its largest extant ice sheet. The oldest continuous ice core extends back 80...

Abstract. Anthropogenic activities are impacting the environment in ways that may intersect and have compounding effects. In soil, the spread of antibiotic

A nearly 175 Ma granite body in West Antarctica reveals ice flowed across the southern Hudson Mountains at the Last Glacial Maximum, resulting in erratics derived from local subglacial bedrock, as rev...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of “proto Earth,” which formed about 4.5 billion years ago

Among the most promising indicators of biogenic elements are volatile organic compounds produced by life forms. The detection of specific metabolites such as dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and related compou...

Ancient ice from Antarctica, extracted as part of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, captures a unique climate record spanning at least the past 1.2 million years.

But even a weaking of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could have grave consequences worldwide.

On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.

As climate change warms the planet, California's worsening wildfires have become unpredictable and extreme.