If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago was bad, think again. Travel ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

SLU’s College of Arts and Sciences will educate your whole self — mind, body, heart, and spirit — to prepare you for a future in a rapidly changing world. Across our many majors, the College of Arts ...

Researchers have discovered strong evidence from rocks in Colorado that Earth was covered in ice and snow around 700 million years ago, a period known as 'Snowball Earth'. The study, led by the ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Blend hands-on learning with practical knowledge to tackle complex issues. Choose an environmental science major and have a positive impact on future generations. As the first environmental science ...

When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...

A faculty member at CU Boulder since 2000, Biernacki researches Hinduism, gender, New Materialism and the religion-science interface. She’s published dozens of book chapters and journal articles, as ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

a 2023 study in the journal Science suggests. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere — a viscous layer kept malleable by heat deep within the Earth. It lubricates the undersides of Earth's ...