Two Spinosaurus hunt Onchopristis, a prehistoric sawfish, in the waters of the Kem Kem river system in what is now Morocco. Credit: Jason Treat, NG…
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Predator paradise — The giant predatory dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus eyes a group of Elosuchus — crocodile-like hunters — near a carcass. Credit: Artwork by Davide Bonadonna…
While the COVID-19 virus pandemic is forcing everybody to stay at home, we bring you these beautiful views from space of the Dutch tulip fields…
These images, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, show the average nitrogen dioxide concentrations from January 1 to March 24, 2020, and March 25…
Buoy delimiting the fully protected zone within the Portofino Marine Protected Area, Italy. Credit: CNRS Through the assessment of the 1062 marine protected areas (MPAs)…
Lava streaming from an active vent during the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey Scientists suggest rainfall patterns contribute to timing of…
An artistic cross-section through forming crust approximately 3-4 billion years ago. The presence or absence of plate tectonics during this time is a topic of…
Polar bears on Arctic sea ice. Credit: Dirk Notz The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, at least temporally.…
Record-Breaking Air Pollution in Nine Cities American Lung Association’s ‘State of the Air’ report finds climate change is driving increases in unhealthy air, 150 million…
Earthrise by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, December 1968. Earth at gibbous phase as seen from the Moon. Credit: NASA To honor the day’s 50th…
Researchers present new evidence that the deoxygenation of the ocean wiped out biodiversity during one of the “Big Five” mass extinctions in Earth’s history –…
This image shows sediment-rich sea ice in the Transpolar Drift Stream. A crane lowers two researchers from the decks of the icebreaker RV Polarstern to…
An outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on April 12, 2020, has…
These images, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, show the average nitrogen dioxide concentrations from March 13 to April 13, 2020, compared to the…
Different layers within the Earth have differing compositions and densities. Credit: © 2020 Kelvinsong – CC BY-SA 3.0 In an effort to investigate conditions found…
Marco Tedesco (left) and a colleague measure reflectance on the Greenland ice sheet during a 2018 expedition. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute Last year was one…
Earth’s molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers at UC Davis and Aarhus University, Denmark. The new study suggests heavier iron isotopes migrate…
In this image, captured on February 22, 2019, the river cuts from left to right in the image before plunging over Victoria Falls – visible…
A look inside the Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE). This machine was used to grow nanowires with hexagonal silicon-germanium shells. The emission from this…
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of…