WASHINGTON — To explore the complex interactions between the natural world and society and enhance our understanding of Earth’s systems — the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, ...

Four key climate systems are showing signs of instability and approaching tipping points with potentially abrupt and ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...

"Crossing one tipping point could set off a cascade of other tipping point crossings with the majority of interactions being destabilizing," climate researchers wrote in the 2025 state of the climate ...

Scientists from the Universities of Sydney and Sorbonne University have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the orbits of Earth and Mars, past global warming ...

In May 2024, Earth's protective plasma envelope shrank to one-fifth its normal size in less than nine hours—the most dramatic ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Without deep cuts to emissions, there's a chance Earth could embark on a dangerous "hothouse trajectory" to complete climate chaos. That's one takeaway from a new report that found 22 of Earth's 34 ...