A new scientific assessment reveals that humanity has pushed seven of nine critical planetary boundaries past their safe ...

The article highlights the paradox of widespread belief in the abundance of life in the universe juxtaposed with humanity's singular known example on a planet facing rapid climate change. It ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier never before explored by astronauts. reading time 3 minutes Launching rockets ...

Switching to a plant-based diet is good for human health and the earth. A diet heavy on whole grains and plants won’t only benefit human health, it’ll benefit the planet too, according to a report ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...