New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houstonians showed up in droves to help make an environmental impact at the 16th annual ABC13 Earth Day E-Cycle Drive. A steady line of vehicles flowed through CompuCycle's Spring ...

Scientists have long debated what causes glacial/interglacial cycles, which have occurred most recently at intervals of about 100,000 years. A new study reported in the March 24 issue of Nature finds ...

For millions of years, the Earth has oscillated between ice ages and warmer episodes. The movements of the ground beneath our ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

The hydrological cycle is a fundamental natural process for keeping Earth’s operating system intact. Humanity and civilization are intimately dependent on the water cycle, but we have manipulated it ...

As an essential material for the survival and reproduction of almost all aerobic organisms, oxygen is closely related to the formation and development of complex organisms. A recent review provides a ...

You probably picture the Earth's annual journey around the Sun as being more or less a circle, but that's only true some of the time. Models have long suggested that our home planet's orbit shifts ...

A new study is examining the Earth's carbon cycle in new depth, using diamonds as breadcrumbs of insight into some of Earth's deepest geologic mechanisms. A new study led by a University of Alberta ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Dec 11, 2020, 07:52am EST Dec 11, 2020, 11:30am EST This article ...