Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the ...

A groundbreaking study conducted by scientists at the University of Bristol has made a chilling prediction about Earth’s ...

Earth system models have been overestimating natural nitrogen fixation by about 50%, overstating the strength of Earth’s future carbon sink.

Over the past week we’ve witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP – or, more verbosely, the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...

Colombia has several areas of high biological diversity in the Andean ecosystems, with a wide variety of endemic species, found nowhere else on Earth, as well as the Amazon rainforests and unique ...

Atmospheric dust plays an important role in the way Earth absorbs and reflects sunlight, impacting the global climate, cloud ...