Researchers discovered the earliest record of freshwater, and now crystals may lead researchers to discover when life on Earth began, a new study says. A new study, which was published inNature ...

Curtin University's Dr Hugo Olierook with a rock from the Jack Hills in Western Australia, which contained the zircon crystals analysed in this research. New Curtin-led research has found evidence ...

(CN) — Evidence of fresh water deep inside Earth has thrown a wrench in scientists' longstanding theory of a salty, ocean-smothered Earth existing four billion years ago. Fresh water, which is ...

This means fresh water on terrestrial land above seal level is at least four billion years old. It challenges a study in 2021 in which scientists made a convincing argument for the Earth being ...

(The Hill) – The planet has endured massive freshwater losses over the past two decades due to the combined effects of climate change, overconsumption and drought, a new study has found. Arid land ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

The 10-foot-long arapaima was quickly disappearing in Brazil until local communities stepped in to save it—and themselves. A close-up view of an arapaima from the Brazilian Amazon shows its unique ...

Freshwater lakes are fundamental for sustaining life, a moderate climate and nurturing millions of people, often formed from ...

The wireline drilling core barrel is visible from the underside of the Liftboat Robert platform, from the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP ...

Deep in Earth's past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...