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 ...

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

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

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

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

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 ...

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

But Earth’s early history, including epochs with high ambient temperatures and no enveloping atmosphere, implies that surface water would have evaporated and drifted back into space. The water ...

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 ...

Life may not have ... water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New research from Stanford University shows that water sprayed into a mixture of gases thought to be present in ...