The observed direction of polar motion, shown as a light blue line, compared with the sum (pink line) of the influence of Greenland ice loss (blue), postglacial rebound (yellow) and deep mantle convection (red). The contribution of mantle convection is highly uncertain.

Scientists identify three causes of Earth’s spin axis drift

The diamond anvil in which samples of magnesiowüstite

Experiments using Diamond Anvils Yield New Insight into the Deep Earth

Palouse Falls State Park in Washington

From crystals to climate: ‘Gold standard’ timeline links flood basalts to...

Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic

Unprecedented ice loss in Russian ice cap

Radium from within rock leaches from clay minerals that transfer highly radioactive radium-228 and an organic phase that serves as the source of radium-226.

How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce...

A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life...

Ancient tiger eye BIF (banded iron formation)

Laughing Gas May Have Helped Warm Early Earth and Given Breath...

Oldest rock on Earth

Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks

Artists impression of white dwarf star (on right) showing dust disc, and surrounding planetary bodies.

Study of material surrounding distant stars shows Earth’s ingredients ‘pretty normal’

Iron-silica particles helped shield cyanobacteria like these, which played a key role in the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere according to new research from UAlberta.

Iron-silica particles unlock part of the mystery of Earth’s oxygenation

Artistic depiction of early Earth blasted by solar system debris.

Chemical footprint in present-day atmosphere mimics that observed in ancient rock

Blue Diamond

What makes diamonds blue?

Sound waves reveal enormous diamond cache deep in Earth’s interior

Earth's youngest banded iron formation in western China.

Scientists discover Earth’s youngest banded iron formation in western China

The Jeerinah Formation in Western Australia

Oxygen levels on early Earth rose, fell several times before great...

Earth

Laser experiments lend insight into metal core at heart of Earth

Earth

Scientists propose solution to ‘Gaia puzzle’

These are Ediacaran fossils at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.

Why life on Earth first got big

Ediacaran carbonate rocks in Three Gorges area, Hubei Province

What caused the mass extinction of Earth’s first animals?

Quartz analysis

Yosemite granite ‘tells a different story’ story about Earth’s geologic history

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