Climate
The world has warmed 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit per decade over the past 15 years, a fraction of the 0.36ºF per decade rate confidently predicted by the U.N. six years ago,...
PLANET EARTH
North America's tallest peak just got shorter.
Climate
Can you rely on the weather forecast? Maybe not, at least when it comes to global warming predictions over short time periods.
Evolution
Researchers have found signs of life in mud pulled from the bottom of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica.
Planet Earth
About a million more square miles of ocean are covered in ice in 2013 than in 2012, a whopping 60 percent increase.
Oceans
The world's largest volcano lurks beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers have announced.
Plants
The bizarre circular patches of bare land called "fairy circles" in the grasslands of Africa's Namib Desert have defied explanation, with hypotheses ranging from ants to...
Dinosaurs
Long ago, when the Earth had only one continent and one ocean, an earthquake rippled through western North America's great sand sea.
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