In 2017, astronomers on board the International Space Station photographed two eerie islands in Ethiopia. Dek and Daga lie in Lake Tana, whose copper-tinted waters have been important geographically ...

With human activity having quite an effect on the Earth, many animal species have gone extinct. Fortunately, though, that ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

By Joshua Drakes, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Theatre Orangeville brought Canadian space icon Chris Hadfield to the Opera House on Sunday (Oct. 26) to talk about his new novel, Final ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

A decade has passed since the countries of the world signed the Paris Agreement. Political scientist Fariborz Zelli sums up the surprises - both ...

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is a vital mode of stratospheric variability with significant influence on tropical and subtropical climate systems. However, its influence on precipitation ...

Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line before it breaks.