Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

Imagine a healthy planet with healthy humans living on it: the world has embarked on a path to clean energy, clean air and fresh water; we are feeding ourselves without compromising land or sea ...

For most creatures there would be no coming back from being dehydrated - life without water is almost impossible ... most durable forms of life on planet Earth," Nova said. Even though the ...

Billions of years ago, the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin, with liquid water on its surface—and maybe even life. Now, the world is a cold ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth ... results without (dashed blue arrow) and ... [+] with (solid blue arrow) groundwater mass redistribution. The water pumped ...