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In a quiet stretch of Tasmania's west coast, where the weather shifts without much warning and the land feels older than anything built on it, a large steel structure has been slowly entering the conversation around climate records. The project, known as Earth's Black Box, has been described in plain terms by its creators, though the idea behind it tends to stretch that simplicity.

Of all the creatures that have ever sent a person screaming out of a kitchen, the cockroach has probably earned the most consistent hatred across the most cultures. They are synonymous with filth, with disease, with things lurking in the walls.

The Arctic is warming far faster than the rest of the planet, and a new study published in Science Advances suggests that this warming could transform one of Earth's biggest natural carbon stores sooner than scientists once thought. Researchers say northern soils above 30degN, including vast areas of permafrost, may switch from absorbing carbon to releasing it around the 2050s when deep frozen carbon is taken into account.

When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake hit Japan on March 11, 2011, it was already one of the most catastrophic and most closely monitored disasters in modern history. According to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, as of March 2026, the Japan National Police Agency reported 15,901 deaths and 2,519 people missing and presumed dead from the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.

Drop a glass and it falls, whether or not you believe in gravity. The Earth circles the Sun, whether or not it ever crossed your mind.

The rainforests of Borneo are often described as some of the richest ecosystems on Earth, yet they continue to produce surprises that have remained hidden for centuries. Among towering trees, dense undergrowth and an extraordinary variety of insects, plants and fungi, scientists have identified a species that occupies a particularly strange place in nature's hierarchy.The newly described fungus, Pleurocordyceps cornusynnemata, does not simply infect an animal host.

More than a decade after the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake, scientists have uncovered an unexpected aftermath that stretches far beyond the initial destruction. Scientists have found out that the seismic waves caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake travelled to the inner part of the earth, where they bounced off boundaries near its core and travelled back, coinciding with tiny, measurable crustal movements in Japan of a fraction of a millimetre.

When we consider the very beginnings of life on Earth, we might envision giant dinosaurs stomping through ancient forests, or the first clumsy fish flopping out of prehistoric oceans. We tend to look at the history of land animals in terms of these great, dramatic leaps forward and assume that the familiar, verdant terrain we call home was created by and for the enormous creatures that would later dominate it.

The solid inner core is contained within the liquid outer core, enabling it to rotate differently from the Earth itself

Physicist who designed and developed innovative instruments that provided evidence of changes in the Earth's atmosphere