On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Riley Black The discovery of worms and snails confirms that these still ...

A series of hands-on teaching modules created and shared by Virginia Tech researchers has filled a gap in data science ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will appoint the Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (CESAS) to support scientific progress in Earth system ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

The process of the great continent of Africa losing its eastern shoulder will be slow and gradual rather than a sudden, ...

Sep. 30, 2024 — Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

These findings, the 10 New Insights in Climate Change, are released annually by scientists at Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme. The group aims to provide ...

As a result, he added, the current evidence for a cosmic impact is based heavily on the measurements taken from the more ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...