Coastal cities play a key role in the global economy and have important functions for society at large. At the...
For the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have...
The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest has a history of producing powerful and destructive earthquakes that have sunk...
Global warming, driven by human activities, has led to rising average temperatures worldwide. However, Greenland has been warming at an...
Ancient viruses preserved in glacial ice hold valuable information about changes in Earth’s climate, a new study suggests. For decades,...
A new study finds more than half of adults surveyed worldwide expect to be seriously harmed by their water within...
At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth...
It is widely accepted that the early Earth largely consisted of molten magma, forming a global ocean of magma. This...
Climate scientists have long agreed that humans are largely responsible for climate change. However, people often do not realize how...
Excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activities—such as fossil fuel burning, land-use changes, and deforestation—is known as anthropogenic carbon dioxide....
New research has revealed factories globally are not properly destroying one of the most potent greenhouse gases emitted from the...
Interactions between neighboring tectonic plates can push parts of Earth’s surface up or down to form notable features, such as...
