How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

Students are also welcome to take our introductory geology course, Exploring the Earth ... the Natural Science Core requirement. They are designed to acquaint students with some exciting aspect of the ...

New research suggests complex life on ... things on Earth, of existence — ultimately, where we come from and where we are ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Science writer Ferris Jabr has now reanimated another idea that captured the era’s zeitgeist: the concept of a “living Earth”. In Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life Jabr makes the case that ...

When we discuss climate change today, we are mostly concerned with how such change will impact our environment and our lives. We look to the past to help understand climate cycles and how our ...

Come engage in the many facets of the Earth ... science. Earth Scientists study the natural processes that change the structure and composition of the solid Earth, its surface, and its Oceans and ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth ... science, with emphasis on human interactions with the environment. Sustainability is a unifying theme throughout the course. The knowledge and skills ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences now offers a doctorate in Earth System Science. The program is open for students with backgrounds in Geoscience, Environmental Science and Sustainability, Atmospheric ...