The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.

The precipitation of salt out of sea ice created a feedback mechanism that might explain the formation of Snowball Earth, the most extreme climatic event in the history of our planet. The idea, ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released highlights from its 2025 survey of the USS Monitor, the iconic prototype ironclad warship that sank during the Civil War.

Two video cameras and a weather station near Marconi Beach in Wellfleet help USGS scientists test water level warning system for the Atlantic Coast.

Wrinkle structures are small ridges and pits in rock, often made by microbial mats. They’re best known from Precambrian and Cambrian strata, where they serve as important evidence of early life, and ...

From above, the ocean reveals a breathtaking natural formation—a massive turquoise lagoon surrounded by coral reefs and deep blue water. This stunning circular pattern in the sea highlights the hidden ...

An analysis of the major challenges currently existing shows that cultivating diversified, professional and well-regulated ...

Europe is struggling more and more with extreme heat in the summer. While climate change is the main reason for this increase, what specific physical mechanisms cause a heat wave? One important driver ...

A new modeling study suggests that salt left behind on sea ice could have made the planet even brighter and colder as global glaciation began.

For decades, the Standard Cosmological Model has operated on a single, foundational assumption: the Big Bang happened everywhere at exactly the same time. Today, a newly released theoretical paper ...

As airlines test new routes and researchers refine models, contrails are shifting from an afterthought of flight to a potential tool for cutting the carbon footprint of aviation.