When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. A new study led by Professor Gemma Harvey from ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

A new study shows that the inner core changed shape in just a few decades, challenging previous assumptions and revealing ...

Earth’s inner core is shifting, slowing, and reshaping. Scientists study its impact on magnetic fields, pole movement, and ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...

This course explores surface processes across Earth’s dynamic landscapes. Focusing on mountain, hillslope, river and coastal environments, the course investigates how and why these landscapes change ...

bridging a longstanding gap between surface processes and processes deep in the Earth," adds co-author Jun Korenaga, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and ...

The new theoretical model applies previously published, Yale-led research to a wide range of interconnected geological and atmospheric processes. It may provide the clearest picture yet of how Earth ...