These women are helping to unravel the mysteries and mechanics of Earth.

In honor of the day, we’re highlighting a few women who play an essential role in the Earth Institute’s work to understand how the planet works, how humans are changing it, and how to build a sustainable future.

Volcanologist Einat Lev tackles reader questions and explains how more monitoring of volcanoes could save lives.

By sampling snow from glaciers and tracking pollutants back to their source, the study reveals pathways to reduce harmful pollution in the Indian Western Himalayas.

For her work toward charting the global ocean floor, scientist Vicki Ferrini has been named by the Explorer Club as one of 50 people changing the world.

Scientists are working to improve their calculations of earthquake danger by combining maps of known faults with the use of supercomputers to simulate potential shaking deep into the future in California.

Researchers have reconstructed past sea levels in the western Mediterranean in new detail by sampling coastal cave formations.

The Lamont-Doherty physical oceanographer was recently awarded early career honors from the Oceanography Society.

Scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies find that 2020 was statistically equal with 2016, continuing a long-term trend.

A new study traces three-million-year-old winds to help predict future circulation patterns.