EDINBURGH & PARIS — Deep beneath the crust of our planet, hidden over 2,200 kilometers below the surface, a colossal river of liquid iron flows in near-total darkness. For generations,…
Main Facts For billions of years, the Moon has stood as a silent, unshielded sentinel in the vacuum of space, enduring an unceasing, high-speed gale of charged particles streaming from…
GLOBAL — Along the world’s fragile waterfronts, an insidious double-whammy is quietly redrawing maps and threatening the lives of more than half a billion people. For decades, the global conversation…
BERLIN/BREMEN — Deep beneath the rapidly warming expanses of the Arctic tundra lies a sleeping titan: vast, frozen reservoirs of organic carbon accumulated over millennia. As global temperatures climb at…
MOUNT GAMBIER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA — For decades, submerged caves have offered paleontologists and archaeologists breathtaking glimpses into Earth’s prehistoric past. These water-filled caverns act as natural traps, preserving the skeletal…
LONDON & UTRECHT — Some 201 million years ago, Earth underwent one of its most catastrophic biological bottlenecks. The end-Triassic mass extinction wiped out a staggering proportion of marine and…
TOKYO — Deep beneath the rolling, azure waves of the East China Sea, south of Japan’s main islands, a colossal geological engine is quietly roaring back to life. Researchers at…
