Two new proposed NASA Earth science missions will attempt to address key research topics while leveraging both commercial and ...

The field of applied Earth sciences is witnessing rapidly intensifying interactions among climate change, environmental processes, and mining activities.

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences offers undergraduate and graduate courses covering topics ranging from oceanography to geomorphology to cloud physics. Content ...

The Earth sciences will become increasingly prominent in the 21st century as humanity confronts daunting challenges in finding natural resources to sustain Earth’s burgeoning population, in mitigating ...

Earth researchers have spent generations decoding the Grand Canyon, turning its cliffs and chasms into one of the clearest records of our planet’s deep past. These nine Grand Canyon facts, grounded in ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...