Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience of the Earth system.1 The framework quantifies safe boundary levels for ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer ...

From the internet to the ozone layer, AI to the human genome, UC scientists have turned federal research funding into history ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

New research suggests that the thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars could hold the key to understanding whether the Red Planet ever harbored life. These layers, thought to have formed ...

Scientists in Australia have identified a possible cause of gigantic volcanic eruptions - mysterious 'blobs' about 1,200 ...

The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...