Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But ...

condensing and returning to the Earth as rain or snow. However, decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have combined with climate change to put "unprecedented stress" on this ...

Earth’s Storage of Water in Soil, Lakes and Rivers Is Dwindling. and It’s Especially Bad for Farming University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...

The origin of life on Earth is ... may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic molecules, a new study says that microlightning between oppositely-charged water droplets could ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

Earth may have hit a point of irreversible moisture loss in its soil as a result of climate change, according to a new study. More than 2,614 gigatonnes of moisture was lost from 2000 to 2016.