The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast quantities of our planet's heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

A study of ancient flood records shows that recent extreme floods in Europe are not historically unique. Recent ...

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

A recent study on the ancient glaciers of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island has revealed important insights about how past climate ...

Campaigners in Wivenhoe, who are trying to save a century-old oak, have revealed the results of an independent study.

With curators from mainland Japan, Taiwan and Okinawa, the festival was anchored by works from those three regions, with the ...

Found on the southern coast of Peru, this amphibious creature had a tail and hooves and was the oldest preserved fossil of ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet (200 meters) below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where ...