You lay a plastic sheet on the mud. Then you lay your body upon the sheet. Without any direct contact between mud and body, you spend several minutes enjoying the soft and saunalike heat, sweating all ...

The Earth's climate can be affected by natural factors that are external to the climate system, such as changes in volcanic activity, solar output, and the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Of these, the ...

Large and complex sunspot groups characterize the surface of the dynamic Sun during its activity cycle. A new camera system ...

The entire city of Columbus has slowly begun to sink into the earth at a terrifying rate - putting more than one million ...

A forgotten US military base has been discovered under the ice of Greenland, and it may give President Trump the reason he's ...

The formation of the Gondwana supercontinent also gave rise to an Antarctic range that has been covered by ice for 500 million years.

Antarctica, a land of frozen mystery, holds secrets hidden beneath its thick ice sheets. One such secret is a colossal ...

Earth's ozone layer, an early symbol of global environmental degradation, is improving and on track to recover by the middle of the 21st century. Over the past 30 years, humans have successfully ...

Earth Day is celebrating its 55th anniversary this year. The environmental event is marked by an estimated one billion people across more than 190 countries, according to the Earth Day ...

Back in the Free State, a daughter rediscovers the textures of home, family and unspoken inheritances in Antjie Krog’s autobiographical novel ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 centimeter per ...

Investors in the Oluwa Forest Reserve, Ondo State, have raised the alarm over the activities of illegal farmers, warning that the unrest is discouraging potential investments in the state’s ...