Earth and Atmospheric Sciences News

Geophysicist Dr Wouter Schellart has developed the first dynamic model to explain the mystery of the largest and most fascinating volcano in Europe, Italy's Mount Etna on the island of Sicily

A new study from North Carolina State University finds that fish located near coal-fired power plants have lower levels of mercury than fish that live much further away

Montana State University researchers have discovered a rare oasis of life in the midst of hundreds of geothermal vents at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake

A better way to pinpoint where volcanic eruptions are likely to occur has been produced by an international team of geophysicists

The rocks of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta -- the highest coastal mountain on Earth -- tell a fascinating tale

A major drop in temperature 137 million years ago briefly interrupted the warm, equable climate of the Cretaceous Period. The water temperature in the Arctic Ocean fell from around 13°C to between 4 and 7°C, possibly causing the poles to freeze over

A study presented in Nature Geoscience suggests that changes in solar intensity and volcanic eruptions act as a metronome for temperature variations in the North Atlantic climate

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, according to analysis of recent satellite data

Earth today is one of the most active planets in the Solar System, and was probably even more so during the early stages of its life

A relatively new type of El Niņo, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger