“Water changes everything about the way a planet works.” With those words, Graham Pearson, a foremost expert on deep Earth minerals, conveyed the scale of a breakthrough that is ...

Earth’s soil is drying up. It could be irreversible. The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans.

' Space Selfie ' has been released, which allows you to take selfies on a satellite display with the Earth floating in space in the background. Space Selfie is provided by Mark Rober , a former ...

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Fresh water—water containing less than 1000 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids—comprises only 2.5% of the surface water. More than 68% of that 2.5% is found in glaciers and ice caps, and the ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth—a key process in the origin of life.

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new research by Queen's University Belfast has found. Solar flares, which are ...