The latest scientific assessments from the far north describe an Arctic that is not just warming, but rapidly crossing ...

Arctic rivers flowing through Alaska are increasingly turning orange as wildfires, thawing permafrost and other factors ...

The past water year, October 2024 through September 2025, brought the highest Arctic air temperatures since records began 125 ...

Across hundreds of miles of Alaska’s North Slope, long-frozen ground is thawing. As it does, naturally occurring metals ...

The moon is rusting. Earth's moon. It's rusting. Scientists have discovered hematite, a common iron-oxide (rust) mineral, forming at the lunar poles. Rust is a common chemical reaction found on Earth ...

Rust in the form of haematite has been detected on the Moon’s surface, especially at the poles Haematite formation on the Moon requires oxygen and water, which are scarce on the lunar surface Earth’s ...

Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy—and in some cases, they may be becoming more acidic. This otherwise-undeveloped landscape now ...

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The same chemical process that ruins your bike chain and eats away at your outdoor grill could help power the electric grid of the future, and perhaps even help save the planet from catastrophic ...