The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly National Climatic Data Center analysis is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides.
NCDC scientists also reported that the average [...]

Scientists revealed that climate change brought mayhem on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly got well. The findings of the research team led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway, University of London, are based on spectacular discoveries of a 300-million-year-old rainforests in coal mines in Illinois, USA.
Preserved over vast areas, these fossilized [...]

An image of Death Valley overlaid with digital topography data from the ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model
The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published by the US and Japan. The resulting Global Digital Elevation covers 99% of the planet’s surface.
Earth is the third palnet of the solar system fron the [...]

Planet Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Terra.
Earth’s outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods [...]