Genetics

One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at […]

Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought.

A flurry of intense and wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history.

A perfect storm of climate, geologic and geographic conditions have combined to make Hurricane Helene one of the most devastating

One of the widest hurricanes on record slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on September 26 as a powerful Category 4

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted

For billions of years, the continents have moved across the Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have not survived

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do

This video was supported by funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. TRANSCRIPT David Johnson: So, in 2014, we were

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough tension to leach gold from passing fluids, researchers