SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly half a century ago, a minor tremor rumbling beneath the rugged landscape of northern Utah left seismologists deeply puzzled. The seismic event appeared to originate…
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — Oceanographers frequently note a humbling paradox of modern science: human cartographers possess higher-resolution maps of the surfaces of the Moon and Mars than they…
GAMES, UK / GENOA, ITALY — In a groundbreaking discovery that reshapes our understanding of the southernmost continent’s ancient origins, an international team of researchers has identified a massive, previously…
WASHINGTON — For more than 100 million years, Earth has maintained a delicate, life-sustaining balancing act. While greenhouse gases have fluctuated and solar radiation has shifted, our planet has avoided…
TOKYO & OKAYAMA — In the shadowy depths of the western Pacific Ocean lies the Ontong Java Plateau, a colossal underwater expanse of basalt that represents the single most voluminous…
OTTAWA, ONTARIO — In a dramatic development that underscores the accelerating pace of polar transformation, an international team of researchers has documented a colossal calving event at the Petermann Glacier…
LONDON & UTRECHT — Approximately 201 million years ago, Earth underwent one of the most violent and catastrophic shifts in its biological history. The end-Triassic mass extinction wiped out a…
LONDON — For decades, paleoclimatologists have wrestled with one of the most confounding paradoxes in Earth’s history: How did Antarctica manage to develop a colossal, continent-spanning ice sheet roughly 34…
TOKYO — Deep beneath the cobalt-blue waters south of Japan lies a slumbering giant, its vast subterranean plumbing system quietly stirring back to life. A groundbreaking scientific study has revealed…
COPENHAGEN/OTTAWA — In a dramatic demonstration of the rapid and accelerating shifts reshaping Earth’s polar regions, Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has documented a massive calving event at the Petermann Glacier…
