From Arizona's canyons to Utah's buttes and beyond, our national parks columnist shares the most adventurous Southwest ...

Eight green sea turtles were released back into the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, nearly a month after an arctic blast brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida and left the ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

The Invisible Ropes of the Sky Jet streams are essentially fast-flowing air currents high above us, acting much like highways ...

It is one of the most isolated landforms of continental origin, having split from the supercontinent of Gondwana millions of ...

This is due to increased melting from the ice surface in response to warmer air temperatures, and increased flow of ice into the ocean in response to warmer ocean temperatures, which are both ...

A new study has revealed new evidence that a huge "megaflood" refilled a sea today adored by millions of tourists, ending a ...

Ocean surface temperatures are rising at an increasing rate The global energy imbalance has doubled in the last 20 years Ocean warming contributes to extreme weather ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth’s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate – the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents ...

"But we're seeing that these tectonic landforms have been recently active in the last billion years and may still be active today. These small mare ridges seem to have formed within the last 200 ...

Earth’s oceans caught a fever in March 2023 that has yet to break. Since then, the bathwater-like conditions have killed corals in a record-breaking mass bleaching event, fueled hurricanes ...

The world’s oceans are warming four times faster than they were in the late 1980s, according to a new study. The alarming acceleration helps explain why 2023 and 2024 saw unprecedented ocean ...