Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then ...

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

Florida won’t be getting hit with massive blankets of snow and ice like the rest of the U.S., but even frosty windshields and ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently.

What you think you know isn’t always correct. Just because a false claim gets repeated over and over again doesn’t make it ...

After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the weather would let them.

Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to ...

Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms—rare bursts of high-energy particles from the ...

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

An arctic blast has sent cold air across the United States, causing trees to break suddenly in what looks like an explosion.

An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is ...