earth science

Seismic waves from a big quake are easy to see—think of the classic image of a seismograph, pencil scratching out telltale waves on a rotating paper as the tremor arrives. Even to highly…

By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer In the course of a single year, University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill lost both her mother and her…

Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though buried under more than 2,000 feet of Antarctic ice, its temperatures climb to…

BY DREW COSTLEY - AP Science Writer Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that's likely to…

In 2011, Lindy Elkins-Tanton and a couple of colleagues wrote a paper exploring ideas about how tiny would-be planets called planetesimals might have formed billions of years ago, and…

Labor and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurecka said Wednesday that the refugees will be in a position “of any other citizen” if they want to get a job.The refugees will only need to get a…

UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s “illegal, unprovoked” and…

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Ocean depth plays a big role in how regions are affected. While the depth of the middle of the Pacific Ocean allows cooler waters to upwell, the shallower areas around tropical islands get…