The sun is midway through its life of fusion. It's about 5 billion years old, and though its life is far from over, it will ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

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3,4 As the health sector builds on these landmark achievements, it has the opportunity to embrace nature-based solutions—actions that protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use, and manage natural or ...

Sienna Somers, nature campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: ‘Successive governments have failed to protect our environment from pollution and ensure people can continue to enjoy the health and ...

A long-sought invisible force wrapped around Earth has been detected more than ... a paper published Wednesday (Aug. 28) in the journal Nature. Correction 9/3: Svalbard Rocket Range is in Norway ...

NASA scientists have discovered a third global energy field around Earth. Known as the ambipolar electric field, this force drives charged particles into space above the poles. Two major global ...

The paper was published on August 28, 2024, in the journal Nature. An Electric Field Drawing Particles Out to Space Since the late 1960s, spacecraft flying over Earth’s poles have detected a stream of ...

"If we took the planet's temperature, it will tell us that the Earth has a fever. And it is sick," the pontiff said in a video message. "We must commit ourselves to ... the protection of nature ...