The planet’s life-support systems are buckling under the weight of human activity, and the damage now stretches across most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using magnetic traces from ancient pieces of Earth’s crust, researchers found that a chunk of what is now Western Australia ...

“Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth.” So begins a report in Nature attempting to quantify Safe and Just Earth boundaries. The findings ...

A crowd of people gather near a large poster that shows a speech bubble from planet Earth that reads "Help!!" on the occasion of the first Earth Day conservation awareness celebration, New York City, ...

The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces ...

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The deep-water cycle in the mantle enhances chemical reactions between mantle minerals and the metallic core, contributing to seismic anomalies observed at the core ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Land-use change for agriculture and urban development has degraded 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles) of land globally, an ...

"It provides a new way to think about how tectonics, climate and life co-evolved through deep time." The research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, challenges the notion of the ...