In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

Atmos reports on the significance of understanding rocks to address climate issues.

Mangrove forests are widely known as powerful natural carbon sinks, but new research shows that a lesser-known form of carbon stored in their soils ...

Planets are often described as ancient, unchanging worlds. Planets are born out of chaos, shaped by violent collisions and swirling dust. They grow, t.

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

According to these calculations, Earth's total lifespan will be about 9.5 billion years.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has assembled a compelling mineralogical case that Jezero crater on Mars once sustained a warm, wet ...

The convergence of geology, climate, vegetation and human history allowed peat to accumulate on an extraordinary scale over ...

Governments are starting to realize the problems in the copper industry and have made copper a critical metal. The United ...

More geothermal energy sources have been discovered in Croatia, more specifically in the continental part of the country close to Virovitica.