Sep 2019
Findings on the Spanish coast of Mallorca hint at how oceans could respond to climate change
Ancient crystal growths in caves reveal seas rose 16 meters in a warmer world
May 2023
Lightning rips nitrogen in the air apart, allowing it to react with oxygen and other elements.
Ancient giant eruptions may have seeded nitrogen needed for life
Dec 2019
Just the circulation of basic nutrients may have been enough to affect the balance of gases
Flooding Earth’s atmosphere with oxygen may not have needed a triggering event
Aug 2019
Studying such a pristine piece of early Earth may yield insights about the planet’s formation
Fluid in superdeep diamonds may be from some of Earth’s oldest unchanged material
Sep 2019
Chemical reactions involving iron could have increased oxygen-rich compounds in the mantle
How ancient oceans of magma may have boosted Earth’s oxygen levels
Oct 2023
The tracks suggest humans arrived in North America thousands of years earlier than was thought
Human footprints in New Mexico really may be surprisingly ancient, new dating shows
Jan 2022
Laboratory experiments suggest that these worlds have especially gooey interiors
Oxygen-rich exoplanets may be geologically active
Mar 2021
Long thought to have been delivered by meteorites, the element is crucial for DNA and RNA
Phosphorus for Earth’s earliest life may have been forged by lightning
Mar 2019
A fossil of an ancient palm tree is helping rewrite the history of the Tibetan Plateau
The ‘roof of the world’ was raised more recently than once thought
Mar 2022
Increasingly large blazes threaten to undo decades of work to help Earth’s protective layer
Smoke from Australia’s intense fires in 2019 and 2020 damaged the ozone layer