Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...

That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...

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Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

The oldest evidence of Earth's ancient atmosphere may be lurking in rocks from the moon, a new study suggests. That's the takeaway from a new analysis of moon rocks that Apollo astronauts brought back ...

Earth’s surface is warming, but the upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, and scientists now understand why.