Ocean temperature patterns appear to act as a natural brake on the global spread of drought, preventing vast areas of the ...

In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the Earth's ...

When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or violent winds sweeping across barren landscapes. Yet, recent space missions ...

New research published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers highlights the cyclic patterns of geologic activity on Earth. Scientists from New York University report findings from an analysis of major ...

A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...

Earth's worst mass extinctions occurred when environmental change outpaced evolution, revealing a pattern spanning 450 ...

(A–B) Locations of mapped dune fields on (A) Earth and (B) Mars. (C–D) Examples of mapping and interaction identification on (C) linear dunes in Tanami Desert, Australia, and (D) crescentic dunes at ...