According to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2014, global wildlife populations have declined by 52 per cent in 40 years.
Global wildlife populations have...
Half of the water on our planet predates the formation of the Sun, according to a groundbreaking study carried out by a team of researchers from the United...
A team of researchers led by Dr John Wilmoth of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs announced yesterday in the journal Science that, according...
A new mineral, believed to be the most abundant on our planet, has been named after U.S. physicist Percy Williams Bridgman (1882 – 1961), who won the...
A study published in the journal Science provides new evidence that the Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of the proto-Earth with a hypothetical...
NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing experiment (HDEV) is now live-streaming views of our planet from space captured by HD cameras.
HDEV placed four...
Planetary researchers headed by Dr Seth Jacobson from the Observatory de la Cote d’Azur in Nice, France, say they have determined that the Moon formed...
European and Australian researchers have identified three new ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, dubbed CFC-112, CFC-112a, CFC-113a, and one new ozone-depleting...
According to geologists led by Dr Antonio Simonetti from the University of Notre Dame, a detailed analysis of calcite-rich minerals from the 120-million-year-old...
British scientists have answered the question about which direction the centre of our planet spins. The inner core, made up of solid iron, superrotates...
A collector from Austria has found what experts say is the oldest globe to show the Americas.
The ostrich egg globe was made in 1504. Scientists say the...
According to a large multinational team of researchers, West Antarctica began emerging from the last Ice Age about 20,000 to 22,000 years ago, well before...
U.S. researchers believe they have answered a long-standing question about how electrons in the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts can suddenly become...
Dr Iannis Dandouras from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, has found the first conclusive proof of the existence...
U.S. researchers have discovered a long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts.
Two giant swaths of radiation,...
A new study by a multinational team of scientists supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run...
In a new study, geologists at the University of Texas at Austin have examined large-scale polygons on Mars and compared them to similar features on Earth’s...
