Earth Sciences

Weather conditions and shifting sands temporarily reveal an ancient "elder" forest on a Tasmanian beach, preserved from thousands of years ago.

Western science has long debated when the towering pillars of the Pinnacles came to be. A new study suggests most of the spires formed when a particularly wet period dissolved the surrounding rock.

Rising a couple of millimetres per year on average, Mt Everest is having a growth spurt. A new study suggests that a "pirated" river thousands of years ago might have given it a boost.

A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years will not be enough to prevent a 15-centimetre sea level rise for Pacific Island nations, according to new research. 

While parts of Australia's east coast are forecast for warm weather, a cold polar air mass is expected to bring rain and temperature declines of up to 20 degrees Celsius across the continent's south-east before the end of the week.

For Robert Towers, hunting meteorites is a "wonderful hobby" — but his strike rate is impressive, and he hopes the ancient space rocks could hold undiscovered clues to the origins of the Earth and life itself.

A strange signal that shook the planet in September last year has been traced back to a tsunami from a melting glacier in the Arctic. And it may happen again.

September's arrival signals the beginning of spring in Australia. But not everywhere follows the same system when it comes to changing seasons.

The Bureau of Meteorology's long-range outlook is tipping a warm spring for much of Australia, with the potential for wetter-than-normal conditions through parts of the east.

The permafrost is melting and scientists are racing to collect ancient viruses trapped in the ice to understand how they’ve adapted to shifting climate over millennia.

The recent hot spell may feel unfamiliar, but weather extremes are quickly becoming the norm, as climate change up-ends the winter seasons.

A study has revealed the severe effects of longwall mining on upland peat swamps in the Illawarra region, including causing water loss from the Sydney drinking water catchment.

Above-average temperatures of up to 17 degrees Celsius were recorded in Australia this week. But with a polar blast on the horizon, the warm weather could be gone as fast as it came.

Geoscience Australia says there could be more earthquakes in the WA Wheatbelt "for days and weeks to come" after multiple tremors over the past week.

Above-average temperatures are forecast all across Australia as we reach the tail end of winter. But is the cold weather truly behind us?

A new exhibition amplifies the voices of women involved in Antarctica, a place that "gets under your skin".

Researchers have moved the 6.0-magnitude earthquake's recorded epicentre 250 kilometres, based on historical journal entries and seismology reports they say were "misinterpreted" at the time.

Scientists have been able to look at corals like tree rings to work out how warm the Coral Sea has been each summer across four centuries. They say the results reveal an alarmingly urgent need to turn around the trajectory of climate change.

Singing Stones Beach is a natural amphitheatre that echoes the clinking of rocks with each wave. But the rocks aren't from that beach, they were formed in the Snowy Mountains before undertaking an epic ice journey.

The temperature above the east Antarctic coastline warmed by about 50 degrees Celsius in a week earlier in July. The event, called a Sudden Stratospheric Warming has the potential to impact Australia's weather through August and possibly well into spring.