The term 'habitable zone' is a broad definition that serves a purpose in our age of exoplanet discovery. But the…
There's a link between Earth's ocean salinity and its climate. Salinity can have a dramatic effect on the climate of…
Even though Venus and Earth are so-called sister planets, they're as different as heaven and hell. Earth is a natural…
We, and all other complex life, require stability to evolve. Planetary conditions needed to be benign and long-lived for creatures…
During the 1970s, inventor/environmentalist James Lovelock and evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed the Gaia Hypothesis. This theory posits that Earth…
A recent study published in Nature Geoscience uses supercomputer climate models to examine how a supercontinent, dubbed Pangea Ultima (also…
The first early humans to use fire had no inkling of what it would lead to. Fire was one of…
Ancient impacts played a powerful role in Earth's complex history. On other Solar System bodies like the Moon or Mercury,…
Collapsing ice shelves on the eastern coast of Antarctica has revealed something never seen before: a landform that might be…
The two largest reservoirs in the United States are now at their lowest levels since they were first created. After…