My aunt says if you tried to dig a hole to the other side of Earth, this is what would happen: First, you’d dig through loose ...

We live in a rapidly warming world. Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging Earth’s climate to a ...

A doughnut-shaped structure almost 3,000 kilometers beneath our feet has been discovered by scientists, providing new clues ...

Biocrust, also called cryptobiotic soil, is a "community of tiny, dirt-dwelling organisms that form a distinct crust on the ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

Lavas from hotspots—whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland—likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in ...

A recent study suggests that Earth, in all likelihood, had a ring system around it approximately 466 million years ago. This ...

On World Ozone Day, we celebrate global efforts to protect and restore the ozone layer, a vital shield that protects life on ...

September 16 commemorates the date of the signing of the Montreal Protocol, critical for preservation of the Ozone Layer.

Coronal mass ejection from the sun at the same time as a recent X4.5 solar flare is about to collide with the Earth.

The Montreal Protocol is an environmental & multilateralism success story. It has put the ozone layer on the path to a full ...