Levels of potentially dangerous cosmic radiation in Earth's atmosphere rose to a two-decade high in November after a rare ...

The average level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere had its largest one-year increase on record between 2023 and ...

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Increasing CO2 levels are triggering changes in the ionosphere that will adversely affect signals, say scientists ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels are inextricably linked, new research suggests. The strength of the geomagnetic field has gone up in lockstep with the percentage of oxygen in Earth's ...

Within hours of detecting the flare, the UK Met Office and its counterpart in the Netherlands launched a sequence of weather ...

Oxygen is paramount for the survival of many beings on Earth. Therefore, when a team of researchers found that oxygen levels on Earth are in danger of dropping by a millionfold, they were evidently ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

Researchers investigated the Mesozoic Era's atmosphere and vegetation by studying oxygen isotopes in dinosaur tooth enamel. This is a replica of a Stan™ T. rex tooth. Photograph: Thomas Tütken.

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

As with any such correlation, one has to entertain the notion that said correlation might be spurious or indirectly related before assuming a strong causal link. Here it is for example known already ...