By Science and Archaeology Correspondent Published in association with recent findings in PLOS One Main Facts For centuries, underwater caves have functioned as nature’s most enigmatic vaults. Hidden beneath the…
LOS ANGELES — Deep beneath the sun-baked chaparral of Southern California, an invisible and relentless countdown has been ticking for nearly two hundred years. According to a landmark study recently…
PAPUA NEW GUINEA — Oceanographers frequently note a humbling paradox of modern exploration: humanity has mapped the surfaces of the Moon and Mars in far greater detail than the mysterious,…
STOCKHOLM/SHANGHAI — For decades, the scientific consensus surrounding the planet’s thawing permafrost has been stark, linear, and deeply concerning. As global temperatures rise at rates outpacing historical averages, the vast,…
WASHINGTON — For more than 100 million years, Earth has managed a delicate planetary balancing act, dodging runaway greenhouse warming and devastating deep freezes that could have permanently sterilized the…
TOKYO — For decades, geologists viewed the formation of Earth’s massive oceanic plateaus as relatively straightforward processes of construction: colossal volumes of molten rock simply surged upward, breaching the seafloor…
OTTAWA, ONTARIO — In a dramatic illustration of the accelerating changes reshaping the Earth’s cryosphere, an international coalition of glaciologists has documented a monumental calving event at the Petermann Glacier…
LONDON & UTRECHT — Roughly 201 million years ago, Earth stood on the precipice of one of its most catastrophic evolutionary bottlenecks. The end-Triassic mass extinction wiped out a vast…
LONDON — For decades, one fundamental climatological riddle has baffled Earth scientists: How did Antarctica manage to develop a colossal, continent-spanning ice sheet roughly 34 million years ago during an…
TOKYO — Deep beneath the rolling waves south of Japan lies a sleeping titan, and recent discoveries suggest it is slowly stirring back to life. A vast, hidden reservoir of…
