Our Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth, not just due to tidal friction as previously thought. New research suggests ancient planetary impacts and ...

As the planet changes, can we change it too? Engineering Earth is a visual exploration of humanity’s growing ability to shape ...

The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, ...

Scientists have discovered a meteorite older than Earth, offering the earliest clues to how the Solar System formed and how ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

"Economic growth, as we have traditionally defined it, can no longer be our guiding star," wrote Jane Goodall.

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

Extraterrestrials have issued a stark warning to mankind that we risk annihilating our planet in a stunning UFO revelation, which researchers are hailing as "first contact." The ominous alert from ...

22 of the planet's 34 vital signs are at record levels, with many of them continuing to trend sharply in the wrong direction. This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate ...