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

Plastic pollution affects fundamental Earth systems, contributing to almost every pressing global environmental challenge.

Earth's carbonate-silicate cycle is expected to drive CO 2 below the minimum level required by vascular land plants, ...

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 ...

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged. The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth.

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, ...

Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and ...

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 ...