A collaborative team of scientists has discovered that life on Earth over three billion years ago relied on the metal ...

Timeline of Earth's history in billions of years. The new study indicates that life used molybdenum as far back as 3.3 to 3.7 ...

Paytan, distinguished professor of Earth and planetary sciences, and Lin, emeritus distinguished professor of astronomy and ...

China has achieved a major milestone in polar exploration, successfully drilling through 3,413 meters of Antarctic ice to reach the area above the Qil.

LANZHOU, April 22 (Xinhua) -- A new study by Chinese scientists has revealed how cryospheric degradation affects carbon and nitrogen cycles on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, providing key data for ...

Professor Laramie Jensen’s interest in inorganic and analytical chemistry led her to the ocean. And then to the North Pole.

How much of the essential trace element iron remains available for marine life in the ocean depends critically on the ...

Hypersaline environments, such as solar salterns, soda lakes, deep-sea brines, salt mines, salted foods, and dry soils, are among the most challenging ...

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...