Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.
Most people ask ChatGPT to write emails or plan dinner menus. I asked it something far more unsettling: where on Earth should ...
Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?
Market observers warn business-as-usual fossil fuel market scenarios modelled by the Canada Energy Regulator would leave the country exposed to damaging future impacts if Ottawa doubles down on oil ...
Market observers warn business-as-usual fossil fuel market scenarios modelled by the Canada Energy Regulator would leave the country exposed to damaging future impacts if Ottawa doubles down on oil ...
Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.
The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...
Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...
New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world.
"The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences," said professor Benedikt Soja.
Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.
Earth-size planet (HD 137010 b) found orbiting a nearby star once a year, making it a promising target for finding life.