A new study published in Nature has reconstructed one of the most extraordinary episodes of flooding ever recorded in Europe:...

Landslides are among the most destructive natural hazards in mountainous regions, capable of severing roads, burying settlements and damaging critical...

A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions about Earth’s deep interior: that the planet’s lower mantle...

Massive blooms of Sargassum are usually treated as a coastal crisis. When the floating seaweed washes ashore in enormous quantities,...

For thousands of years before industrial fishing transformed the world’s oceans, Pacific coral reefs supported vastly more sharks than comparable...

A new scientific review is drawing attention to an overlooked consequence of the plastic age: the growing exposure of horseshoe...

A forest buried in Wyoming for 56 million years is delivering a warning about the limits of nature’s ability to...

A handful of tiny, tooth-like scales recovered from ancient reef sediments is offering scientists an unprecedented way to estimate how...

A flood remembered for centuries as the “St. Mary Magdalene’s Flood” was not a single catastrophe after all. A sweeping...

Scientists have found evidence that the Atlantic Ocean’s great heat-transporting system can suddenly strengthen—even while it is already severely weakened....