Boston College Professor Hanqin Tian will receive the Bert Bolin Award and Lecture from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), ...

Humans are gambling on the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean ...

Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

An international team including University of Tennessee, Knoxville Professor Alycia Stigall, offers a new way to examine the ...

Join the search for exoplanets beyond our solar system and discover what they teach us about Earth Over the past 30 years, we have discovered thousands of exoplanets, which are planets located outside ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no ...