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Climate October 21, 2015

Mount Everest's ice is melting, researcher claims

Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said Tuesday at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.

Green October 21, 2015

Beach bummer: toxic slime will hit Lake Erie again

Slimy green mats of toxic algae will again threaten the western shores of Lake Erie later this summer, according to an algae forecast released July 10.

Climate October 21, 2015

Scientists watch enormous iceberg drift away from Antarctic glacier

Scientists are watching an iceberg bigger than the island of Guam as it slowly moves away from an Antarctic glacier.

Climate October 21, 2015

Greenland's snow hides 100 billion tons of water

Big surprises still hide beneath the frozen surface of snowy Greenland. Despite decades of poking and prodding by scientists, only now has the massive ice island revealed a hidden aquifer.

Dinosaurs October 21, 2015

Dino-era water trapped under impact crater

More than one kilometer beneath the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, geologists discovered 100- to 150-million-year-old water from the Atlantic Ocean’s infancy. The ancient water hid under a more recent 56-mile-wide crater left after a massive rock or block of ice nailed the Earth near what is now the entrance to the bay.

Oceans October 21, 2015

Massive Antarctic iceberg sets sail

After lingering in its birthing bay for nearly six months, an Antarctic iceberg the size of Singapore is finally heading out to sea.

Google October 21, 2015

Search this: Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Water October 21, 2015

Mysterious pond circles in NY spur talk of aliens

In the small town of Eden, N.Y., the appearance of mysterious circles in a frozen pond has residents baffled.

Bacteria October 20, 2015

'Odd little creature' skips sex, eats DNA

The tiny, all-female bdelloid rotifers have endured the past 80 million years without sex.

SCIENCE October 20, 2015

Beautiful, eerie fluorescent glow of Hong Kong seas indicates harmful algal bloom at work

Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say.

Water October 20, 2015

We've found Amazon River's true source, scientists say

It's an argument that's persisted for nearly four centuries: Where does the Amazon River begin?