Third Pod from the Sun

Kathy Crane is a true adventurer. As one of the first women in the field of marine geophysics in the 1970s, she hypothes... Read more

Xavier Le Pichon came to Lamont Geological Observatory in 1959 and spent four months aboard the R/V Vema as a physical o... Read more

The ocean floor is a deep, dark, cold, scary place filled with terrifying creatures and scorching fissures where boiling... Read more

In the 1800s and early 1900s, dozens of men stationed at harbors around the United States would record water levels and ... Read more

The Johnstown Flood occurred on May 31, 1889, after the failure of the South Fork Dam, which is located on the south for... Read more

Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor, is a rocky world close in size to our own. In our solar system, it is the pla... Read more

The Arctic Ocean is topped with a layer of frozen sea water – sea ice – that grows every winter and shrinks every summer... Read more

Building instruments to search for the building blocks of life in the rocks of Mars is no small feat. These gadgets must... Read more

Water is the most essential of essentials. We can survive weeks without food but only days without water. And it’s somet... Read more

Drilling engineer and ice core scientist Robert Mulvaney has driven thousands of kilometers over Antarctica in the past ... Read more

At the heart of our solar system is an enormous, churning ball of hot plasma. The Sun blows a stream of charged particle... Read more

Earlier this year, scientists reported that radioactive fallout from nuclear accidents and weapons testing is present in... Read more

About 11,000 years ago, the Sahara desert turned green. The region received ten times the rain that falls there now, fil... Read more

Mining is more than just harvesting natural resources – it’s about who owns those right and what the land that those min... Read more

In 1959, the United States built an unusual military base under the surface of the Greenland ice Sheet. Camp Century was... Read more

Thousands of feet below the surface of the Earth is salty water that hasn’t seen the light of day in millions or even bi... Read more

The Clean Air Act of 1970 was one of the first and most influential environmental laws passed in the United States. But ... Read more

Water is one of the things that none of us can live without. Yet, it’s taken for granted in so many parts of the parts, ... Read more

Mineralogist Jeff Post has a one-of-a-kind job: he’s curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, a collection of... Read more

University of Washington biologist Kristin Laidre travels to the Arctic to study animals many of us have only seen in pi... Read more