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Simulating Earth’s changing climate: Why some models exaggerate future warming

CLIMATE
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released overnight, shows a viable path to cutting global emissions by half by...

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

CLIMATE
It's not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest...

Rare primordial gas may be leaking out of Earth’s core

EARTH
This gas was formed in the aftermath of the Big Bang. An extremely rare type of helium that was created soon after the Big Bang...

Why isn’t Earth perfectly round?

EARTH
It's similar to why your arms feel pulled outward when you spin. If you had an enormous measuring tape that started at Earth's center and...

10 of the deadliest natural disasters in history

EARTH
Every year, some of the deadliest natural disasters — earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, wildfires and droughts, on average kill nearly 60,000 people,...

Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago

MINERALS
Scientists provide new evidence that modern plate tectonics, a defining feature of Earth and its unique ability to support life, emerged roughly 3.6 billion...

Study suggests Earth’s tectonic activity peaked 1.1 billion years ago

EARTH
A pair of Australian researchers studying rock samples has found evidence to suggest that the Earth’s tectonic plate activity peaked approximately 1.1 billion years...

A billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

EARTH
Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs...

How carbonates behave in the Earth’s interior

EARTH
Carbonates are the most important carbon reservoirs on the planet. But what role do they play in the Earth’s interior? How do they react...

Traces of life in the Earth’s deep mantle

EARTH
The rapid development of fauna 540 million years ago has permanently changed the Earth — deep into its lower mantle. A team led by...

Where does all Earth’s gold come from?

MINERALS
Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that...

Ancient helium leaking from core offers clues of Earth’s formation

EARTH
Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the...
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