Install
At Earth.com, our goal is to provide the internet with a homepage for anything and everything about our planet Earth and the environment.
- 7,555articles · 365d
- 4+ hour agolatest article
- Sep 13, 2025earliest in window
- 95%with images · 143 videos
- 380avg words
- SCT 5,073
- science and technology 3,330
- ST 2,667
- environment 2,344
- HTH 1,687
- HW 1,584
- PA 1,251
- health 1,187
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Snowball Earth: Why the planet stayed frozen for 56 million years
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (879+ words) assumption that volcanic carbon alone set the clock on Earth’s most extreme climate states. Rocks dating from...the ocean floor gained such outsized control over Earth’s climate clock. Geologists refer to these planet-wide deep freezes as Snowball Earth…...
Earth’s surface was already shifting 3.5 billion years ago
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (800+ words) A new study has found that segments of Earth’s surface were already moving relative to one another...ancient rocks. The finding places mobile crust deep in Earth’s early history and narrows when the planet began...shifted across the…...
Earth may have formed without help from outer Solar System material
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (811+ words) Earth feels like a local story. It sits close to the Sun, surrounded by rocky neighbors, and...story was incomplete. They suspected that some of Earth’s material had drifted in from far beyond, from...likely to form in colder…...
something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth's birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1109+ words) volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s an...the planet’s first 100 million years, when much of Earth may have been a giant ocean of molten rock. In…...
Antarctica has lost grounded ice the size of Los Angeles every three years
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1096+ words) stability,” said lead author Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at UC Irvine. “We’ve known it’s...
How Earth flipped into an ice age 350 million years ago
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (770+ words) Faster rock weathering on land helped drive Earth’s plunge into a deep ice age about 350 million...preserves the chemical trail of that turning point in Earth’s history. Reading those layers, Dr. Feifei Zhang...
Earthquakes are breaking rock deep beneath continents
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (927+ words) Most earthquakes begin in the Earth’s crust, along familiar fault lines that shift and grind...that some ruptures do occur in the upper portion of Earth’s mantle, a layer roughly 1,800 miles thick. Although...
Earth’s missing lead mystery may finally be solved
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (866+ words) Lead is at the center of one of Earth’s strangest mysteries. A big chunk of it is gone. Not...of lead to figure out how old rocks are and how Earth formed billions of years ago. These clues help......
Beneath seemingly tranquil mountains, the Earth continues to boil
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (811+ words) predominantly in the upper crust rather than deep within the Earth. That shallow positioning reshapes how warning...
Earth has a 'ghost plume' that is so powerful it is physically warping the internal
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (850+ words) Earth leaks roughly 47 terawatts of heat into space, a trickle compared with the Sun’s input...material. The hunt relied on seismic tomography, Earth’s version of a CT scan, which turns quake vibrations...