By Rhett A. Butler The world lost many conservationists, Indigenous leaders, and environmentalists in 2024. Their lives were ...

The shift to "Earth" representing the planet occurred gradually, solidifying after the Copernican Revolution. Among the planets in our solar system, Earth stands out not just for its life ...

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So, with that, here's Part 1 of "A Year on Planet Earth": Although there are no signs that volcanic activity is increasing globally, it was nonetheless quite a spectacular year for eruptions. As of ...

Conservationists searching for Vietnam’s critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, one of the world’s most threatened ...

Hans Zimmer shares the tracks that inspired him and his team to create the incredible, original soundtrack for BBC One's Planet Earth II. Would you have what it takes to capture the incredible ...

The cataclysmal scenarios in Mr. Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth,” first published in 1970, tapped into a long tradition of doomsday visions by American preachers and zealots.

That possibility is supported by calculations in a new study that shows the hypothetical planet could have a mass 4.4 that of Earth and orbit almost 10 times farther out than the most distant ...

island and freshwater ecosystems; and species in South America, Australia and New Zealand. Earth has already warmed about 1.8 F (1 C) since the Industrial Revolution. While some species might ...

So how old is our planet, and how do we even know its age? Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago, about 10 million years after the solar system was born. After a gigantic cloud of gas ...

"This is just one of those very rare cases where you propose a hypothesis and actually find it happening." Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it's hard to miss that ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...