Solar System's Run-In With 'Space Cloud' May Have Triggered a Series of Ice Ages 2 Million Years Ago, Says Scientists Around ...

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.

Earth formed around 4.57 billion years ago, but no surface rocks date back that far. That’s because too much has happened in the interim: During Earth’s first 600 million years, known as the ...

In a literal sense, the hour itself won’t make an ice cube’s worth of difference in limiting warming to 1.5 C. But Earth Hour isn't trivial - it's symbolic of the fight ...

A group of scientists is suggesting the year 1610 as the beginning of what has become known as the Age of Humans, a new epoch in the Earth’s history in which the dominant agent of change is ...

An artist makes a globe at a studio in London, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Globes in the age of Google Earth capture the imagination and serve as snapshots of how the owners see the world and their ...