As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Earth Commission Report1 provides major new insights into the potential for the transgression of Earth-system boundaries ...

Mr. Fantastic has a unique variant that is basically another version of the Hulk, which could actually fill a gamma ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world -- they are its architects. A new study has revealed how hundreds of species shape the landscapes we depend on, from vast termite mounds visible ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

The Earth's Crust Is Going through Massive Changes Under California at an Alarming Rate The crust of Earth constantly changes ...

An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth's carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs' ...

On a recent Sunday, Tracy Quinn drove down the Pacific Coast Highway to assess damage wrought upon the coastline by the ...