The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...

Almost everyone on the planet Earth knows that our world suffers from considerable carbon dioxide CO2 emissions. A primary ...

Doctors should take advantage of appointments with patients to encourage them to eat less meat and more lentils, according to two medical students who are also vegans. University of Rochester students ...

A new study reveals that a common human technology may be quietly broadcasting our presence to alien civilizations—without us ...

July 9 will be one of the shortest days ever, as Earth is spinning faster and scientists are still working to understand why.

Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...

As our planet enters a Sixth Mass Extinction, driven by a wave of human activity that has wiped out thousands of species, the question of how this works — particularly, how the Earth seems to ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Around 1 billion years ago, our planet likely took only 19 hours to complete a single rotation, before slowing to the 24 hours we experience today. It also changes on shorter timescales.

Instead, our planet’s impending doom is actually set to happen billions of years from now, long after we’re all gone, when the oxygen levels drop and life as we know it ceases to exist.

And its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, or EPIC, takes pictures of our planet in 10 infrared, visible, and ultraviolet bands every two hours.