Earth starts on Monday 17 July at 9pm on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer This ground-breaking 5 x 60 series for BBC Two and iPlayer tells the astonishing four and a half billion-year story of the planet we ...

Earth Day is celebrating its 55th anniversary this year. The environmental event is marked by an estimated one billion people across more than 190 countries, according to the Earth Day Organisation.

In Earth's formative years, the planet was covered in a blanket of magma which gave rise to an incredibly toxic atmosphere. Scientists believe that our home planet at the time was more akin to Venus - ...

Earth history, as a scientific topic, encompasses the reconstruction and analysis of the planet’s physical, chemical, and biological evolution from its formation ~4.54 billion years ago to the present ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rocks can hold clues to history dating back hundreds of millions of years. Christine S. Siddoway Around 700 million years ago, the ...

A huge, record-breaking set of rocks from deep inside the Earth could reveal how our planet formed, scientists say. They are the first long section of rocks that come from the Earth’s mantle, the ...

This ground-breaking 5 x 60 series for BBC Two and iPlayer tells the astonishing four and a half billion-year story of the planet we call home: Earth. Chris Packham uses the latest science to take ...