Researchers provide a detailed account of how “biodiversity leakage” happens—and how to tackle the often overlooked problem.

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

Salar de Uyuni holds the world’s largest lithium reserve, but mining could threaten local ecosystems. A study by Duke ...

The year 2020 marked a turning point for terrestrial vegetation, reaching an unprecedented level of greenery. This ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Enough sun falls on the earth’s surface in one hour to provide enough power to service all the world’s economies for one year ...

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do Mozart, or score the winning goal in the next World Cup final, ...