For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...

The Solar System is far more diverse in size than it appears from Earth. From tiny rocky worlds to massive gas giants, each ...

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

In a new study published in Nature Sustainability an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigates how global biophysical boundaries need to be ...

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...

Drexel’s graduate programs in Ecology, Evolution & Earth Systems—offered through the Department of Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science—prepare students to tackle some of the most pressing ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature shows. Developed by an international science commission ...

Humanity is well into the Anthropocene 6, the proposed new geological epoch where human pressures have put the Earth system on a trajectory moving rapidly away from the stable Holocene state of the ...

People once believed the planet could always accommodate us. That the resilience of the Earth system meant nature would always provide. But we now know this is not necessarily the case. As big as the ...