South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water—by up to 2 millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed ...

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface can substantially vary over decades, ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

ESS3.D: Global Climate Change Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gasses from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans ... a high enough concentration of oxidized iron particles to turn the surface water green. Once all iron in the ocean was oxidized, free ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.