"Besides material acquired by the Earth during accretion, the solar wind origin of water and its delivery to Earth could have ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

The Earth as a planet can sustain life ... the hydrological cycle that moves water around the planet has gone off balance. Before understanding the crisis, it is important to understand what ...

On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results from a Virginia Tech-led study provide the first direct ...

Destructive land use, mismanagement and climate change are fueling a water disaster set to wreak havoc on economies and lives, a new report warns ...

At a time when synthetic plastic has polluted nearly every corner of the globe and appeared in food and in the human body, ...

Although the consequences of a quarter of the planet’s water melting could be determined theoretically, this is the first ...

Is there a nightmare unfolding 250 miles above Earth? Not according to NASA, which has maintained that astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore are not stuck or stranded in ...

the solar wind origin of water and its delivery to Earth could have gone on even during post-accretional bombardment," the authors write. Here, they're referring to the hypothetical Late Heavy ...

The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from the ground — including from lakes, rivers and plants — and rises into the atmosphere ...