Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31. ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Leif Karlstrom is an associate professor of earth sciences at the University ... There’s a tremendous amount of water coming out of some of these spring systems. And previous researchers have ...

We think of Earth as the “blue” planet. More than 70 percent of it is covered by water. But 97 percent of this water is in the oceans and 2 percent is locked in glaciers and ice caps ...

created when Earth's climate was far different. Today such water is as finite as petroleum. Other aquifers are renewable. "But we're pumping many of them out faster than precipitation is ...

They now walk long distances daily and resort to unconventional methods to fetch water for basic, everyday use. What's behind the water crisis in the 'wettest place on Earth'? Filmed by Ruella ...

the water cycle, the economy, environment and society. The term ‘cryosphere’ originates from the Greek word ‘kryos’ for frost or ice cold. The state of the Earth’s ice and snow affects ...

Water coming out of a biofilter typically undergoes disinfection ... Bacteria permeate virtually every corner of the Earth. Most bacteria live in a biofilm state to enhance their survival and ...

New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from the Earth's mantle with little contribution from Theia. In addition, the findings support the idea that water could have ...