The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The Isthmus of Panama formed, connecting North and South America, and the ...
China’s space program has long been one of the most ambitious in the world, and its upcoming Chang’e-7 mission to the moon’s ...
Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its ...
A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the climate ...
Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...
The weakening of the AMOC has paused since the early 2010s. A recent study by scientists at AOML found that the Atlantic ...
Winter in Alaska has waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, ice caves so blue they look unreal, and lakes so clear you can skate across them like glass.
Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.