Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras—they had only about 10,000 pixels to cover the entire planet. At that low resolution, big storm systems looked like blurry blobs. You ...

Drexel’s graduate programs in Ecology, Evolution & Earth Systems—offered through the Department of Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science—prepare students to tackle some of the most pressing ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...

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 ...

The way science is funded is hampering Earth system models, and may be skewing important climate predictions, according to a new comment published in Nature Climate Change by Woodwell Climate Research ...

Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more ...

Scientists have mapped deep earthquakes beneath continents, revealing structured seismic patterns that may improve long-term ...

People once believed the planet could always accommodate us. That the resilience of the Earth system meant nature would always provide. But we now know this is not necessarily the case. As big as the ...

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

This year, we find that Earth’s energy imbalance – the difference between the amount of energy entering and leaving the ...

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