Rising temperatures in the North Atlantic are slowing vital currents, but a new process in the Arctic could save the day, scientists say.

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

The ocean serves as Earth's largest dynamic carbon sink, absorbing 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually through ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Earth’s biodiversity could be driven by a deep, tectonically controlled cycle that spans millions of years. The Tectonic ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) was a major turning point when oxygen began to build up in Earth’s atmosphere and surface ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...