Antarctica's Blood Falls, a striking red cascade from the Taylor Glacier, is not blood but ancient, iron-rich water. Trapped for millions o...

Algae blooms are accelerating Greenland's ice melt, contributing significantly to runoff in the rapidly warming Arctic. Wind-blown dust car...

Researchers from Cornell University propose that alien hunters should focus on purple-colored planets in their quest for extraterrestrial l...

'Firenados', for example, occur when searing heat and turbulent winds rise above out-of-control forest fires.

About 18,000 years ago, there were coral reefs along the west coast of India. These were lost after sea levels began rising rapidly followi...

Adrenaline-packed sports can add an edge to your holiday experience.

Ocean data from Northeast Greenland has shown, for the first time, an increase in freshwater content in Greenland fjords which could affect...

London, Jan 15 (IANS) Millions of years ago, tiny droplets of sulphuric acid formed high up in the air after an asteroid hit the Earth, mak...

London, Oct 30 (IANS) Oceans may be responsible for making the Earth move in and out of ice ages every 100,000 years, finds a study.

Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Cookies baked from extracts of local seaweed abundant in the Sundarbans mangroves have 17 per cent higher protein co...

Earlier seasoned fishermen could sense a school of fish by judging currents and winds. But their traditional knowledge fails these men toda...

The Earth has generally had a slightly cooler climate during the last 4,000 years, and the ocean currents in the North Atlantic have been w...

The drone follows a pre-programmed course and it maps the distribution of ice algae over very large areas where studies have not previously...

V Dakshinamurthy began to explore the colourful world of algae (seaweed) along the east coast when he was a botany student in 2003

Scientists have revealed that Antarctica went through a heat wave nearly 15.7 million years ago during which plants and algae were abundant...