Earth may be on the verge of crossing several climate change tipping points that could have irreversible and devastating ...

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Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

Where is the impactor?” The question, raised during a planetary science lecture back in 2019, struck a chord with ...

The University of the Witwatersrand has launched two initiatives that place Africa at the centre of global earth-science innovation.

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no ...

The study of Earth science isn’t just for students who are interested in how our planet works. It’s also for those who are passionate about addressing urgent global challenges such as climate change, ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

In microgravity, flames form a spherical shape due to the absence of buoyancy-driven convection. Meanwhile, flames are ...