Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

It took three million years for the chemical composition of the planet to be stable after its birth, but elements to help ...

The cuts come amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to shift away from clean energy sources and cut Environmental ...

Humans are gambling on the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean ...

An international team including University of Tennessee, Knoxville Professor Alycia Stigall, offers a new way to examine the ...

Wildfire-born storms have become a growing part of fire seasons across the West, with lasting impacts on air quality, weather ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed—Earth's solar system and its planets looked more ...

Earth spins, shifts, and now… flips? Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany recently mapped ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...