Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon ...

There is a 50% chance that global warming will consistently exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next six years, according to a new report.

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Geologists discovered the evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

This year, leading thinkers asked how humanity became so fragile, what other life could exist in the universe, and whether it ...

He clashed publicly with prominent atheists, including Richard Dawkins, and gave testimony in a famous court case in Arkansas ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage ...

The rapid loss of the magnetic field over North America is still unexplained but is linked to the shift of geomagnetic poles ...