Snow has a much higher albedo than grass or asphalt, which can explain a number of factors affecting the weather in winter and spring.

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 ...

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

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There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

The researchers who created the map already suspected there could be more hydrogen buried in Earth's crust than scientists previously thought. But now that the results are out, even the team that ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.