When scientists found one such meteorite embedded in the thick ice of Antarctica, they unlocked a time capsule carrying ...

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Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

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Dos Rios takes in 1,600 acres where the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers meet. It was restored over about a decade starting in ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Mount Erebus, a hidden world of volcanic ice caves harbors thriving microbial life, offering a glimpse ...

With high carbon dioxide, low oxygen and no photosynthesis, here’s how an entire ecosystem persists in Movile Cave, one of the most extreme environments on Earth.

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel ...

A striking formation rises from Antarctica’s icy expanse, its sharp lines cutting through the frozen landscape like a ...