Earth & Environment
Australia is the fastest-moving continent on Earth, shifting seven centimetres north-northeast each year—almost twice as fast as your…
Sep 2, 2026
Earth Science and Weather
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Earth & Environment
Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean underwent a colossal drawdown that deposited salt layers kilometres thick—then…
Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
Researchers detected 245 largely uncatalogued seismic events near the ocean edge of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, most likely glacial…
Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
The only way rescuers could get 12 boys and their coach out of a flooded Thai cave was to sedate them first
Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
An 8,500-year-old ornament carved by hand from a scallop shell was found deep inland in California, hundreds of miles from where the shell…
By Daniel Moran · Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
On August 4, 2026, a 76-square-kilometre section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier—roughly the size of Manhattan and up to 150 metres…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
No country would be truly safe if nuclear war went all the way. But Australia begins with advantages few others can match
Aug 28, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth’s oceans are probably hotter than at any point in at least 1,000 years and are warming faster than they have for millennia
Aug 28, 2026
Earth & Environment
High Mountain Asia—the “Asian Water Tower” supporting hundreds of millions downstream—lost groundwater at an estimated 24.2 billion tonnes…
Aug 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
Sea level is climbing faster in southern England partly because land in Scotland is rising
Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
The 2004 earthquake lifted parts of North Sentinel Island by an estimated one to two metres and exposed its surrounding coral reef
Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
A coal seam beneath Australia's Burning Mountain has been smouldering for about 6,000 years
Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
On 5 July 2024, Earth completed a rotation 1.66 milliseconds short of 86,400 seconds, the shortest day measured in the atomic-clock era…
Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
When Hunga Tonga erupted underwater in 2022, it fired so much water vapour into the upper atmosphere that it measurably increased the total…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 25, 2026