Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...
Understanding how water moves through the Earth system is fundamental to predicting climate impacts and ensuring sustainable ...
Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns. Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a ...
In a remote desert, scientists have discovered one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It dates to well over a billion years ago, to a time when our planet was inhabited solely by single-celled life.
A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for the RNA world hypothesis, one of the leading theories on how life began on ...