“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

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 ...

A ring formed by asteroid debris likely adorned Earth during the Ordovician period, geology researchers have proposed.

A huge landslide last year caused a megatsunami so powerful it made the planet vibrate for nine days, a study has found. A ...

An astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario finds that the odds of the asteroid 99942 Apophis striking Earth are slightly higher than previously thought. In his study, published in The ...

Typhoon Chanthu lashed East Asia in 2021. At one point, winds reached 170 mph, making it one of the strongest storms of the ...

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