As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

If we manage to reach the climate target set by the Paris Agreement, we could be living in a world that is, on average, 2 ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...

For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn't always that way – and scientists have predicted that ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

A new simulation predicts that, Earth will become uninhabitable due to extreme heat, volcanic activity, and a superheated ...

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...