17+ hour, 52+ min ago  (424+ words) Thawing permafrost is considered a growing source of greenhouse gases as our climate warms and releases ancient carbon once stored in the frozen soils. But a new study reveals an overlooked plus side: the process will also trigger a removal…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (334+ words) In a small slice of good news from a far corner of Europe, native fish are swimming freely on an important river after conservationists removed a wartime concrete obstruction. The Pchinja River runs 80 miles through North Macedonia and into Serbia,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (558+ words) Research from the University of Melbourne for the first time has confirmed the ancient impetus that formed the iconic Twelve Apostles, 25 miles of rock formations along Australia's southern coast. The evidence is in: tectonic plate movements over millions of years…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (544+ words) Over the decades, a glacier in Central Asia appears to have been growing when almost every other glacier on Earth has been shrinking. Now, a scientific expedition has recovered ice cores containing 30, 000 years of frozen water in the hopes that…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (362+ words) An Italian-Egyptian archaeological mission has finally excavated a temple for the worship of the sun after it was identified over 100 years ago. It's only one of two sun temples that have been definitively identified, and dates to the reign of…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (380+ words) In Bolivia, the largest number of dinosaur footprints ever recorded in a single spot is yielding fascinating insight on how these prehistoric animals moved in a way that bones just can't. 16, 600 footprints, forming dozens of "trackways," have been so far…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (465+ words) One of the most remote and unexplored parts of the planet has been visited by a" submersible crewed by Chinese geophysicists and marine scientists for the first time ever. Having been researched from the surface by Russian scientists, and the…...