Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

Deep-sea mining trials revealed significant but localized biodiversity loss in one of the planet’s least explored ecosystems.

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

In downtown Santa Barbara, less than a block from where one of the first Earth Day festivals took place in 1970, we recently gathered environmental and ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

Abrupt federal rollbacks, rescinded or paused grants, and political pressure on climate programs have disrupted millions of ...

New research shows Montana’s ancient rivers remained stable and undeterred during the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction ...

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This week at London's Royal Society, board members of the world-leading science and music festival STARMUS—Garik Israelian, ...

Warren County Schools announces the winners of the recent District Science Fair. Students who placed first are eligible to advance to the Regional Competition in Raleigh.