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It goes without saying that the Earth looks nothing like this at all.

Among all the planets of our solar system, Earth turned out to be the lucky one, as water covers approximately 71% of its surface. Water is a key ingredient for life on Earth. It also influences the weather and climate dynamics...

During COP27, held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published the Living Amazon Report 2022. This report has shed light on the current state of the Amazon rainforest and the gravity of the deforestation...

We are in the midst of an environmental emergency. The threats to this only habitable planet are numerous, ranging from rising temperatures, to the destruction of wildlife habitats, to pollution. Furthermore, humans' reliance...

If you’ve been to a big city in the last few years, chances are you went to an immersive Van Gogh experience, or at least saw massive ads for one. Now the BBC and David Attenborough plan to do the same thing for our planet....

British environmentalist James Lovelock died this week on his 103rd birthday. The brilliant scientist spent much of his century-plus on Earth furthering our knowledge of the planet, and exhorting humans to take better care...

A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the Sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet’s severe weather, climate change and other...

A new documentary is set to hit the airwaves this summer, with the iconic host, Sir David Attenborough, trudging through landscapes from the jungle to the desert...

A huge sunspot has been seen within firing rage of the earth. It's reported to have grown double in size in just under 24 hours, and is as large as three times the size of the Earth, according to experts. The size is sparking...

The results will compliment ground-based sites such as Railroad Valley Playa in Nevada, and together will provide orbiting satellites with a robust calibration dataset.

All too often, headlines are built strictly from terrible and shocking stories. It’s easy to lose track of the kindness and generosity of humanity, as well as efforts to do good for the planet. If you've been following...

The Earth's solstices come twice a year. For the Northern Hemisphere, the summer (June) solstice occurs around June 20-21, and the winter (December) solstice happens around Dec. 21-22.

While the pandemic had humanity burning up the world’s resources more slowly than usual, the trend has reversed. Earth Overshoot Day, alas, arrived yesterday on July 29.[...]

They found that these global geologic events are generally clustered at 10 different timepoints over the 260 million years, grouped in peaks or pulses of roughly 27.5 million years apart. The most recent cluster of geological...

New research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, has revealed that massive glacial melting has resulted in a shift of the Earth's axis...