Earth’s rotation is slowing as melting ice moves across the planet. New research says it’s driven by climate change and is ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence from one of Earth's most extreme ancient warming events, revealing how the climate may ...

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe ...

The good news is that as of this week, you can at least while away the hours by taking to the virtual skies of Google Earth’s ...

It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob ...

A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with equal reflectivity – and this may have implications for solar geoengineering schemes ...

(Grant Faint/The Image Bank/Getty Images) When the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake struck off the coast of Japan in 2011, its ...

Earth is trapping heat at a record pace, as the planet's heat buildup has doubled in recent decades - driven largely by human ...