A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

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Study reveals potential "ticking time bomb" beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet, as ice 'corks' over ... by decades to hundreds of years. In one scenario, the team simulated the removal of an ice ...

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New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 ... author of a new study describing the landforms, told Live Science.

They uncovered another clue about how the Moon formed and how Earth got its water. The study suggests that the ... of a separate protoplanet (Theia). “One explanation is that Theia lost its ...

A new study ... sheet of ice—a sheet that is slowly thinning and retreating. “Volcanic activity has been shown to affect Earth’s climate in a myriad of ways,” the authors write. “One ...

The isotopic similarity between Earth and the moon is a long-standing problem in cosmochemistry for which the term "isotope crisis" had been coined. "One explanation is that Theia lost its rocky ...