Given that we live here, there's a lot we know about Earth, but there is still tons of knowledge to uncover, some of which ...

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Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science combines strong classroom and field-based instruction with internationally recognized research. The department offers ...

Most people carry a fairly comfortable picture of the planet they live on: solid ground underfoot, north is north, and ...

The results of the planet’s first annual physical—a complete health check—are in, and they are alarming. We are deep into the yellow danger zone and moving rapidly towards the red high-risk zone, ...

Our planet may have had a recent change of heart. Earth’s inner core may have temporarily stopped rotating relative to the mantle and surface, researchers report in the January 23 Nature Geoscience.

Most people are busy with life on Earth. They rarely get the chance to think deeply about complex topics. And so they take the ideas of why we know certain things with relatively equal values — maybe ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate modeller and the boss of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) in New York City, is not noted for his humility. Nevertheless, writing in Nature, a journal, ...

Earth architecture is built on a far-reaching history. Its story continues to be told through aged structures that have stood the test of time. Across the world, indigenous earth construction ...

"Many universities have Earth Science or Earth and Planetary Science departments," Ridge said. Some universities also call the field of study "Earth and Environmental Science," according to Gardulski.