Clues from the Dead Sea could explain ancient drying of the MediterraneanTue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 The high salt concentration in the Dead Sea drives the warming and shrinking of the lake, and something similar may have happened in the Mediterranean 5.5 million years ago | |
Earth entered its ‘bad decades’ after dinosaur-ending asteroid strikeThu, 22 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs | |
Earth’s geographic poles wander more than we had thoughtThu, 01 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 A phenomenon known as true polar wander, different to the movement of the magnetic poles, may be more common and more dramatic than previously known | |
Exploring the world’s northernmost caves – in picturesWed, 12 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000 A trip to a remote cave in northern Greenland previously only seen from the air uncovered fascinating information about the area's climate millions of years ago. These images from expedition photographer Robbie Shone reveal more | |
Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaursTue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling back to Earth at ballistic speeds, creating a global blast of heat strong enough to broil life on land | |
Negatives saved from Shackleton’s Antarctic trip reveal hidden detailsWed, 15 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000 Frank Hurley rescued hundreds of photo negatives from the Endurance when it sank off Antarctica in 1915. Now a book of his surviving images casts new light on the fateful expedition | |
A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth’s primordial magma oceanFri, 03 Jul 2026 14:13:44 +0000 Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event have been found in magma from a young volcano in the Indian Ocean | |
Huge crater in Australia may be the oldest impact structure on EarthTue, 23 Jun 2026 22:00:24 +0000 A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but other researchers dispute the proposed age | |
Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 earthquakeThu, 18 Jun 2026 18:00:18 +0000 An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east | |
What lies beneath? The new era of Earth imagingThu, 18 Jun 2026 08:18:37 +0000 What happens when geophysicists, mathematicians and computer scientists collaborate to solve the planet's most complex subsurface challenges? Meet the innovators driving a revolution in how we see the Earth. | |