Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

The Mass indicated a strong line of ecological continuity with Pope Francis, who made environmental protection a hallmark of ...

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been using American contractors to distribute boxes of food in four sites in Gaza. Since ...