Earth

There’s a portal to the center of the earth in the wreckage of an abandoned project site in Murmansk, Russia. What’s it for? And why is the Internet Googling “Kola Superdeep Borehole screams?”

Ice cores from a Tibetan glacier reveal the first deposits of industrial revolution pollution, starting in layers dated to about 1780.

Even if the V-day leaves you meh, the geology of gemstones is still pretty great

Developing economies continue to build coal power plants, and growth in oil and gas has been persistent

Climate change may in part be spurring the acceleration, which could change how heat and nutrients are pushed around the oceans

The vast region may stay wet—or dry up and burn—depending on whether indigenous people want to continue to work the land

In the next two decades, sea-level rise, storm surge and winds will chew away at Florida’s $1-trillion economy, a new report warns

Oh, right, Volcano Awareness Month happened while all those exciting earthquakes had us distracted!

Journalist and author Peter Brannen talks about his book The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions.

Ozone-eating chemicals are also potent greenhouse gases, accounting for up to half of the Arctic’s temperature rise

Artist Shoshannah White views the endangered Arctic ice through a unique lens

Originally published in March 1965