By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Climate change and human activities are causing significant disruptions to Earth's natural systems, including the global water cycle. These disruptions have introduced variability and irregularities ...

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the planet’s ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

On December 8, 2025, the Sun unleashed a powerful solar flare, an event that captivated the attention of scientists and space ...

This year’s Earth Hour also served as a stark reminder of the twin crises we face—climate change and nature loss. Nature is disappearing at an alarming rate, and this past year was officially the ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical processes on Earth, leaving nothing from before. Or so we thought. Reading time 3 ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...