Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow macaroni either. If one looks closely, the east coast of North America is ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

Buried Alive: Carbon Dioxide Release from Magma Deep Beneath Ancient Volcanoes Was a Hidden Driver of Earth's Past Climate Oct. 30, 2024 — A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific ...

The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

I squeeze my body through a gap – clambering on my hands, knees and stomach – until the slanted gash in the Earth opens into a small cavern. Perched on a rock, Short looks as comfortable as ...