Earth/space science teachers educate students on the four basic areas of scientific study classified as part of earth science: oceanography, astronomy, meteorology and geology. Earth scientists play a ...

At the request of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, the National Academies will convene an ad hoc committee to examine various issues and lessons learned in the implementation of the Instrument and ...

In a seismic twist of fate, a routine earth science lesson on earthquakes at Half Hollow Hills East High School in Dix Hills turned into the experience of a lifetime for teacher Catherine Jennings and ...

Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away as Greece and what’s now Pakistan. Probably driven by ...

The Earth sciences will become increasingly prominent in the 21st century as humanity confronts daunting challenges in finding natural resources to sustain Earth’s burgeoning population, in mitigating ...

There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...