What Are Natural Disasters? Natural disasters are catastrophic events that occur as a result of natural processes of the Earth. They include phenomena such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

Grist dives into Florida's ironic water scarcity problem, borne from climate change, a development boom, and the ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her government wouldn't rule out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between ...

A study gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. The study could lead to more accurate weather and climate models and better ...

Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...