Human well-being on a finite planet towards 2100," uses a system dynamics-based modeling approach to explore two future ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Is there any way for Earth to escape this fate? How do the other planets fare? To answer both these questions honestly and in ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

Conflicts over land and territory will likely proliferate as the accelerating climate crisis collides with rising ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

In the face of deadly heat, will mankind respond to climate change in time? Listen to this story get unpacked on The Excerpt.

On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near-vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of northern New Mexico. My fingers gripped tightly ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

Earth is not getting blasted by large impactors at the rate it once was, but its still getting a fair share of collisions. In fact, if you gathered up all the space debris impacting the Earth ...

A newly discovered Earth-sized world orbiting a dead white dwarf star gives scientists a hint of what the solar system will look like in billions of years if our planet can escape destruction.