Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and then wash the remains into the sea. The processes are definitively independent ...

New evidence has revealed that their disappearance could be due to severe glacial erosion that occurred during a time known as “Snowball Earth” when almost the whole planet was covered with ice.

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

Learn more about the NASA instrument’s mission to take the first full image of Earth’s magnetic field.

Earth is a complex place, home to many different landforms and shaped by processes like tectonics and erosion. How much do you know about our home planet? Test yourself and find out!

This was based on geochemical proxies that suggested that large amounts of mass erosion matched with the Snowball Earth period. "The new research verifies and advances the findings in the earlier ...

Rainforests in these regions cover just 2% of Earth's total surface area and yet house half of the world's plant and animal species. Deforestation is the clearing of forests. Most deforestation ...

Kevin Jordan joined forces with Friends of the Earth and a co-claimant to challenge the government A man who lost his home to coastal erosion said he is "not giving up" after a High Court ...