Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The sun’s solar activity reaches its peak at the middle of this cycle. According to NASA, the sun’s excess solar flares and winds wreak havoc on the Earth’s magnetic field. Earlier this ...

Water moves around the world in "atmospheric rivers" as part of the global water cycle, explained the report ... condensing and returning to the Earth as rain or snow. However, decades of ...

Plastic pollution is changing the processes of the entire Earth system, exacerbating climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean ...

We also use the term for things that are not living, like cell phones. The life cycle for anything you buy includes getting the materials from the earth, making the parts, delivering the product from ...

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought ... "Oceanic carbon, nitrogen, iron and phosphorus cycles were all doing something a little bit unprecedented at this point in Earth's ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...

The Proterozoic Eon witnessed the emergence of some of Earth's earliest life, including small ... is only one part of Earth's larger carbon cycle. The cycle also involves the ocean, plants ...