Planet Earth, our home... ? we've got so many questions about it! How was the Earth formed? How did animals get on Earth? Why ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." "These are times when geologic evidence indicates Earth froze over, essentially from ...

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear nights, we can even see their traces as shooting stars. Trapped in layers of ...

Exploring LIDAR: Tech using lasers to reveal the deep history beneath our world’s surface. The Channeled Scablands of the Pacific Northwest hide an astonishing secret. Evidence of a massive flood that ...

How much do you know about Earth? The basics are easy, but there’s plenty about the planet most people haven’t heard. For this Earth Day, the Gazette put together a half dozen lesser-known facts with ...

Ultimately, to understand how the Earth’s carbon cycle works is to appreciate the human influence currently impacting it. Getty Images, James Cawley This is the second in a five-part series written by ...

Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away as Greece and what’s now Pakistan. Probably driven by ...

When geologist John Wesley Powell explored the Grand Canyon in 1869, he noticed a glaring omission in the rocks. A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating ...

I was actually sent a review copy of this well in advance of its late-April publication, but because I’m a terrible person (and, you know, have a day job that involved a lot of intensive work during a ...