Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

This year has been the worst for the Amazon rainforest in almost two decades. Although there has been a measured decline in ...

An ambitious plan to provide electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030, supported by an initial $30 billion commitment from ...

For a century we’ve been doing the most important industrial chemical process the same way, and a change may come in the nick ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

At a distance of 2.7 billion miles (4.3 billion km) from Earth, the ice giant is a ... pulling away from the planet. Europa ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Artist Lita Albuquerque is having a major comeback moment following a 2018 wildfire that destroyed her home and studio.

But as a mathematician at the University of Oxford, Tom’s instinct is always to translate the world around ... when they reached Earth—meaning that any difference in the angle of sunlight was due to ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Earth is getting a temporary second "mini moon," a.k.a. the 2024 PT5 asteroid. Here's how you can see it and if it will ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...