Earth as oxygenator. Earth loses about 90 tons of gas—mainly hydrogen and helium—to space every day. That’s tiny compared to the mass of our atmosphere, so there’s no cause for alarm. But ...

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Earth's tectonic history is what it is because of our planet's material composition. It's not like this on all planets, nor even all the rocky planets in our own solar system. However, the garnet ...

The layer of basaltic rock that people live on in Iceland extends to a depth of about 9 miles (15 kilometers). It’s part of Earth’s crust. The mantle that lies directly beneath this crust is distinct ...

In a paper published today, Sept. 19, in the journal Science, a team of researchers, including paleobiologists Scott Wing and Brian Huber from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...

The history of Iceland is written in the tephra layers of its landscape, and The Volcanic Way offers an accessible year-round immersion through “slow travel” – in keeping with the unhurried ...

In 2018, Wing, Huber and colleagues convened a workshop of climate scientists to share what they knew of Earth’s climate history and how such a big-picture view might be accomplished.