With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

ABB to develop thermal infrared (TIR) imaging instruments for two European Space Agency Harmony satellites, helping the research mission gather ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...

On Nov. 4, Yale Peabody Museum, in partnership with Yale Schwarzman Center, will host an experimental opera that imagines ...

Humans are emitting far more planet-heating carbon-dioxide (C02) than all the world's volcanoes put together. But scientists hope that by studying climate change in Earth's distant past ...

While building a successful career as a fitness guru in the '90s, Susan Powter, who rose to fame as the face of the "Stop the Insanity!" infomercial, host of "The Susan Powter Show" and author of ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant white dwarf with an Earth-like planet in an orbit just beyond where Mars is in our solar system. Earth could end up in such an orbit circling a white dwarf in ...