Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

life has a disproportionate affect on Earth's carbon cycle." Another aspect of the research is what is says about the absolute limits of life on Earth in terms of temperature, pressure ...

unnoticed ways the Moon shapes the course of life on Earth. 'The Moon has been up there as long as evolution has been taking place, and lunar rhythms are embedded in the life cycles of many organisms, ...

All organisms on Earth ride upon a "ferrous wheel" made of different forms of iron that are essential for life. Aa Aa Aa Biogeochemical cycles describe pathways by which chemical elements move ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...

Plastic pollution is changing the processes of the entire Earth system, exacerbating climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean ...