Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

02/15/2023 By Brooke Coupal. Ericka Boudreau ’20, ’22 is on her way to becoming a triple River Hawk. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UMass Lowell in environmental science with a ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

So, while Earth will eventually leave the solar system one way or another, it's not something we will have to worry about for a few billion years yet. Probably. Originally published on Live Science.

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

(Learn About Precambrian Time). Scientists discuss the ordinary rocks found on Earth’s surface that are special, rare, or nonexistent elsewhere in the solar system—based on our current knowledge.

Earth’s salt cycle is swinging out of balance, posing yet another “existential threat,” study finds Too much salt is poisoning rivers and oceans and it's not just table salt we have to be ...

JERRY MEEHL: Well, when you talk about Earth system prediction, you have to go back to the 1980s, really. And that’s when we started using these, what we call Earth system models, or climate models.