Climate change will benefit basking sharks in the UK but creatures like the longest living animal may struggle.

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

In an increasingly connected world, rare earth metals with odd names such as lanthanum, cerium and yttrium have become ...

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 ...

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 ...

The collapse of a crucial network of Atlantic Ocean currents could push parts of the world into a deep freeze, with winter ...

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 ...

In my former life, I studied paleoclimatology (the variability in Earth’s climate over time) and earned a master’s degree in geology. I later worked for a green nonprofit where I spent a few years ...