Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

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Heavy erosion has left only a portion of its ring ... A new study found that Earth’s oldest craters, which can hold clues to how life persisted on our early planet, are disappearing — and ...

It's Earth Week on The Common. And in honor of our home planet, we're bringing you a special series. Every day this week, we're exploring what climate change looks and feels like in Greater Boston ...

“It had been hypothesized that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball Earth ice,” said Kirkland, a professor in the School of Earth and Planetary ...