Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental silicate weathering, which acts as a long-term planetary thermostat. A ...

It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob ...

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A study published in Nature Geoscience reports new findings on the effects that erosion has on the carbon cycle. The study comes from a group of researchers led by Aaron Bufe and Niels Hovius of the ...

Water (H 2 O) sublimates from the sea ice surface, is transported via atmospheric circulation, and is then deposited as snow or re-sublimated at high altitudes. This water transport is ultimately ...

May 5 (UPI) --New research shows mineral weathering during hothouse conditions helped life on Earth rebound in the wake of one of the "big five" mass extinctions some 200 million years ago. The ...