For the first time in its history, humanity is assembling a coordinated system to find, track, and deflect asteroids that ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Scientists say that multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger of following a "hothouse" path driven by feedback ...

Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

Earth’s climate system may be approaching a set of irreversible thresholds that, once crossed, could lock the planet into a dramatically warmer state for centuries. A major multi-author synthesis ...

Earth System Sciences is an inherently interdisciplinary field that investigates the integrated dynamics of the planet’s major spheres—the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere—and their ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

STRIVE seeks to take measurements from the upper troposphere to the mesosphere while EDGE seeks to make glacier, and ice ...

The world is on course to trigger several climate "tipping points" if global government policies stay on their current course, according to a new study April 23. These points of no return are specific ...