NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential ...

Once a somewhat fringe theory, it is now widely accepted that Earth had at least two, and possibly more, snowball eras. Yet while it is now accepted the Earth was some 60°C (110°F) colder than ...

Stand on the equator and you'll be moving at 1,670 kilometers per hour — faster than the speed of sound! That's how quickly Earth rotates on its axis, from West to East. And that rotation is ...

The Equator is a line of latitude that bisects the globe at its widest point, and where the hours of light and darkness are equal throughout the year. The Equator passes through 13 countries ...

Can you imagine a dam so huge that it can slow down the daily movement of the Earth? Well, there is one. The massive ...

When one of the poles points more toward the Sun than the other pole, that half of the planet gets more sunlight than the other half, and it’s summer in that hemisphere. When that pole tilts away from ...

Earth's widening equator is having a similar effect on its spin. "To me, the fact that human beings have caused the rotation of the Earth to change is kind of amazing," Agnew told CNN. Perhaps you ...

Earth Rotation Day is being observed globally today (Wednesday). The day celebrates the rotation of planet earth on its axis ...

So why is the temperature so different in different places? There is an imaginary circle called the equator that divides the Earth into two parts. The Sun is our heat source here on Earth.

Warm air rising from Earth's surface pushes the air mass away from the equator, and releases its moisture as precipitation as it travels pole-ward (Figure 1). If the Earth did not spin on its axis ...