An artist's rendition of the early Earth environment. Lightning generated by storms and volcanic plumes frequently strikes volcanic rocks. The lightning strikes create fulgurites which contain ...

Since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated around the world, raising awareness of the environment and the need to conserve and protect natural resources. But how did it start and how can you get ...

Earth Day first began 52 years ago as an effort to organize teach-ins on university campuses about sustainability amid threats to climate change from human behaviors. Now, April 22 represents an ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

Researchers have produced a new estimate for the origin of Earth's plate tectonics—the movement of large chunks of the planet's outer layer, or crust. Although there is broad consensus that plate ...

From the shores of Lake Tahoe to the bright lights of Reno, communities across Northern Nevada and California are celebrating Earth Day early with festivals, outdoor events and sustainable shopping.

ROBERT HAZEN (Carnegie Institution for Science): How can one not fall in love with rocks and minerals? I mean the colors, the shapes. NARRATOR: …and they're the building blocks of modern civilization.

The emergence of life on Earth was dependent on a precise cocktail of critical ingredients, one of which is phosphorus. Prior to this study, it had been thought that meteorites provided the needed ...