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Telescopes and satellites combine to map entire planet’s ground movement

Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park

How sulfur helped make Earth habitable before the rise of oxygen

Peaty sedimentary archive from a palm swamp collected with a Russian corer. (Image:Encarni Montoya)

A new study shows the evolution and changes of the vegetation...

A panoramic view of one of the Arico ignimbrite outcrops where the two units can be seen.(Image: Joan Martí)

A new study determines the influence of the topography over ...

This image shows the divisions between Earth’s layers. The ancient, continent-sized rock regions encircle the liquid outer core. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

New study suggests gigantic masses in Earth’s mantle untouched for more...

The mineral olivine contains melt inclusions (black dots), just a few micrometers in size. The geochemists isolated these inclusions and investigated the isotopic composition with mass spectrometers. Credit: Münster University - Felix Genske

Geochemists measure new composition of Earth’s mantle

The volcano Chimborazo, Ecuador, that Alexander von Humboldt surveyed in 1802. Photo: Spyros Theodoridis/CMEC

Why is Earth so biologically diverse? Mountains hold the answer

Earth's mantle (dark red) lies below the crust (brown layer near the surface) and above the outer core (bright red).

Earth’s fingerprint hints at finding habitable planets beyond the solar system

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible

Depictions of large asteroids striking Earth, which, during parts of its early history, would have had a much thicker atmosphere than it does today. Credits: NASA with modifications by Stephen Mojzsis

A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past

A diagrammatic representation of the Earth in the Archaean showing subducted ocean floor carrying its chemical signature into the deep mantle. The signature which includes water and chlorine is preserved in melt inclusions contained within olivine and carried back up to surface within komatiite lava flows.

Ancient drop of water rewrites Earth’s history

Study co-author Rob Coe and Trevor Duarte orienting cores from a lava flow site recording the Matuyama-Brunhes magnetic polarity reversal in Haleakala National Park, Hawaii, in 2015

Earth’s last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought

Groundwater well drilling equipment in California's Central Valley. Photo Credit: Chad Ress

Drilling Deeper : A new study shows Americans are drilling deeper...

The floormen (in yellow jackets) and drillers (in white booths in background) of Expedition 383 retrieve core barrels and sediment cores around the clock. Credit: Jenny Middleton/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

How a drilling ship pulls cores from 2.5 miles below the...

Zermatt in the Western Alps.

More ‘reactive’ land surfaces cooled the Earth down

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Building blocks of the Earth

Canadian Rocky Mountains

Study provides new insight into origin of Canadian Rockies

The comet 46P/Wirtanen on January 3, 2019.

A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of...

The rising Earth from the perspective of the moon.

Formation of the moon brought water to Earth

Ammonium fertilized early life on Earth

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