By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Moreover, Canada is closer to Greenland than Denmark and shares a land border on Hans Island. Existing ports, airfields and ...

The 'world's most adventurous kids' are taking on 500 epic challenges before they are 18 - to spend more time with family and ...

Sophie Coulson, assistant professor in Earth science at the University of New Hampshire, was preparing for class when a 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of York, Maine, near what Coulson ...

Storm Herminia brings heavy rain and 80mph winds with new Met Office warnings - Met Office has issued warnings across swathes ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

but that means we are not far from seeing a slushy ocean along the coast in the Mid Atlantic and New England. With more blasts of cold air expected over the coming couple weeks, there is a chance ...

However, these ice patches don’t date back to the last Ice Age. Scientists believe they were remnants of a period around 12,000 years ago when the climate of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem briefly ...

We are between ice ages. These frosty periods typically last around 10,000 years and are related to the planet’s orbit and our star’s solar cycle. It is rumoured that the next ice age is coming ...