Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of the Earth's seasons. Plant growth cycles, the migration of billions of ...

Sunday's magnitude-7.2 earthquake that rocked northern Mexico and parts of Southern California was barely worth noting compared with the ongoing, major forces that shape planet Earth. Subscribe to ...

Is the Moon’s slow retreat from Earth a cosmic time bomb in our planet’s relationship or an entry to the precision of modern science? Fifty years ago, Apollo astronauts left more than footprints on ...

On ten thousand to million years time scales, climate dynamics on the Earth’s surface are driven by both external and internal processes. Earth`s interior provides heat from radioactive decay and ...