BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Happy Earth Day! The very first Earth Day was celebrated 54 years ago, on April 22nd, 1970… but how did this holiday get started? In the years leading up to the inaugural ...

The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

Few topics have been as contentious among both scientists and laypeople as the age of the Earth. Many scientists are people of faith, but from the moment the ancients found seashell fossils high in ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith of ...

SAN DIEGO — Taking care of our planet continues to be more important now than ever. With Earth Day coming up this Monday, CBS 8 wanted to take a look back at the history, now spanning more than 50 ...

We live in a rapidly warming world. Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging Earth’s climate to a warmer and warmer state, further changing our planet as sea levels rise, living ...

Ancient rocks show Earth’s magnetic field followed deep heat patterns inside the planet for hundreds of millions of years.

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia collided with the young Earth. How the collision unfolded and what exactly ...

Earth Day, a day which honors the achievements of the environmental movement and raises awareness of environmental issues, is celebrated across the globe on April 22. Since 1970, millions of people ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...