New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free ...

New research suggests Earth’s first complex life stayed close to the seafloor and depended on oxygen to survive.

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and life sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the ...

Scientists have created a global “treasure map” for rare earth elements by uncovering where the strange volcanic rocks that ...

Eighteen undergraduate students and a few postdoctoral candidates presented their research to 100 attendees at the Buffalo ...

Scientists are working to solve a mystery of Earth’s molten outer core, which lies more than 2,000 kilometers beneath our ...

Space-based Earth observations enable global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans. Earth observations from space, combined with data acquired ...

A 2015 satellite photo shows a series of golden tendrils surrounding Ghana's Lake Bosumtwi, which is considered sacred to the ...

Earth/space science teachers educate students on the four basic areas of scientific study classified as part of earth science: oceanography, astronomy, meteorology and geology. Earth scientists play a ...

Almost a century ago, the revolutionary idea of the biosphere gained a foothold in science. Defined as the collective activity of all life on Earth—the tapestry of actions of every microbe, plant, and ...