Which country sees the sunrise first in the world? Learn about its location near the International Date Line, time zone adjustments, Millennium Island and interesting geographic facts in this article.

Right now, the Sun is firing charged particles at Earth like a cosmic shotgun, traveling at more than a million miles per hour. The only thing standing between you and this radiation bath is an ...

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The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of the carbon dioxide that oceans pull from the atmosphere, new research ...

The findings have implications for our understanding of water sources on Earth and the Moon. When scaled up by roughly 20 times to account for the substantially higher rate of impacts on Earth, the ...

Long ago, when ice sheets spread across much of the Northern Hemisphere, the Atlantic Ocean existed in a world that looked nothing like today. Massive glaciers covered land. Sea levels were lower.

Explore mind-bending revelations in "25 Astonishing Facts About The Earth That Will Confuse You." Unveil secrets from explosive lakes to the magnetic field flip, and discover the wonders shaping our ...

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Our planet is unique for its ability ...

Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much ...