What will the next 50 years look like for Earth? Explore what current scientific research says about climate change, ...

The Planetary Health Check is a key monitor of earth's vital signs—and will guide action for a more sustainable world.

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

Berry Glacier, a tributary of the Getz Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, has deteriorated dramatically in the past three decades, according to researchers in the Department of Earth System Science at the ...

Earth's cosmic neighbourhood is more dynamic than imagined, hosting temporary 'mini-moons' captured by gravity and ...

Scientists like to refer to our planet as residing in the “Goldilocks zone,” where it’s neither too hot nor too cold, and just the right distance away from the Sun to support life. But in the classic ...

With the increasing interest in and adoption of ML/AI approaches to advance Earth system science, there are opportunities for disruptions to lead to rapid scientific, societal, or institutional ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

Understanding the complex, changing planet on which we live, how it supports life, and how human activities affect its ability to do so in the future is one of the greatest intellectual challenges ...