A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that ...

This year, head to Tomales Bay in Northern California to discover the magical "Northern Lights of the Sea" for yourself.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

New images reveal that the strange Martian stripes on the slopes are formed by avalanches of dry dust, not liquid water.

There’s a place in Concord, Ohio that defies logic – Hidden Lake Park is so breathtakingly beautiful that it seems impossible it hasn’t been overrun with visitors from across the state.

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals aims to secure clean water and good sanitation for all by 2030, in recognition of ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

An exhibition to Thirst after  Our 2018 TOI litfest and my recent volume for the tricentenary of Mumbai’s mystical Parsi well were both titled Waternamah. This week I again immersed myself in  the ...