While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

Researchers are now trying to understand the "innermost inner core" of the Earth by studying how seismic waves travel through ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Earth Day is on Tuesday, April 22, this year. The annual observation is set aside to increase awareness around environmental ...

Hoteliers field a surge in bookings while Romans, religious pilgrims and migrants reflect on the death of “a good man”.

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth's Critical Zone ... They underwent at least one major habitat transition to colonize soil environments—first topsoil and, later ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

That may sound a little dry at first, but in reality this find could be a major piece of the puzzle ... and even in Martian meteorites that fell to Earth — but Curiosity's latest data adds ...

Four years ago, during an intense period of Israeli-Palestinian violence, gunmen fired on Friends of the Earth’s Munqeth Mehyar ... the lower Jordan River’s main tributary.