With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

A trio of US researchers claim to have successfully tested predictions that it's possible to harvest clean energy from the ...

There may be other places in our solar system that, unlike Earth's landscape-recycling geological processes, might preserve either the dust itself or the telltale spike of extraterrestrial radioactive ...

The interaction between lakes/reservoirs and their watersheds, and management strategies for these systems, are emphasized. Course includes laboratory. This course will focus on the specific ...

Studying how biological processes and climate are related requires a new type of climate model: the Earth system model (ESM). ESMs include physical processes like those in other climate models but ...

Climate and Earth system modelling is the use of mathematical ... Here the authors find that light snowfall and snow melting processes drive this mismatch and use these relationships to constrain ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

Our Earth is a complex system which undergoes change as a result of all kinds of different processes. In order to understand those processes, earth scientists use laboratory experiments, field ...