Can science prove the Earth is round? Every major test points to the same conclusion

Earth's shape can be tested in surprisingly simple ways without relying on space photographs. The strongest part of the ...
EurekAlert!

A holistic perspective on Earth system science

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...
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Tipping Points, Cascading Impacts, and Interacting Risks in the Earth System: Proceedings of a Workshop

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...
Phys.org

A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying Earth system boundaries

Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature shows. Developed by an international science commission ...
SpaceNews

NASA restructures Earth System Observatory to reduce costs

WASHINGTON — NASA is revamping a major series of Earth science missions, delaying some and relying more on international partners for others to reduce costs. As part of NASA’s fiscal year 2025 budget ...
Phys.org

First-ever full Earth system simulation provides new tool to understand climate change

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...
Time

Planet Earth Is in Critical Condition. These are the Steps the World Must Take to Change That

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New Proposals to Help NASA Advance Knowledge of Our Changing Climate

These four investigations — including ODYSEA and Carbon-I, both of which would be managed by JPL — are part of the agency’s new Earth System Explorers Program. NASA has selected four proposals for ...
Brookings Institution

Tending the planetary: Toward an ecology of institutions for Earth system tipping points

Coral reefs, the Amazon rainforest, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation are approaching irreversible tipping points. Yet the market, political, and multilateral structures we rely on ...