The next phase in the life of Laudato Si', the decade-old encyclical on ecology, will not be defined by its author, Pope ...

New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss ...

Clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle - wet seasons are getting wetter and dry ...

New research from the Future Ecosystems for Africa program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has ...

Global warming is set to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius soon, meaning the world will most likely fail to meet the 2015 Paris ...

Supernovas happen when giant stars, far larger than our sun, burn through their fuel and collapse under their gravity.

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

As another punishing summer edges into Karachi, a Stanford researcher and a former climate minister confront the same ...

Research reveals that we must reduce the Earth's warming from 4.9 to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit to protect our vanishing glaciers ...

New research links supernova events to sudden Earth cooling episodes and ozone depletion, revealed by carbon-14 spikes in ...

Pollution Time Machine: It’s not just living animals that carry remnants of humanity’s toxic footprint. Samples of bird feathers, fish tissues and other materials hold traces of pollutants that can ...

Forest fires are a fundamental force in Earth's dynamics with a direct impact on human health, food security, and ...