NASA spokesperson Lauren Low told PolitiFact that one of the reasons Earth appears duller is because the new photo was taken at night, with only moonlight lighting the planet. The 1972 photo was taken ...

While Earth’s climate has changed many times in history, there is unequivocal scientific consensus that our world is now heating up at an unprecedented pace, driven by human activities such as the ...

Take a whiff of the air—chances are you’re smelling something this very moment. The human nose can detect more than one ...

The global climate has changed drastically over the course of the 58 years that separate these two photographs of planet ...

Against that backdrop, a series of local events hosted bythe environmentally focused public forum Climate Onewill bring ...

A long-term warming trend is set to meet a short-term global heat-up, which could bring unprecedented heat into 2027.

Ian McEwan’s recent novel, What We Can Know, is set in a semi-underwater Britain in the year 2119. A few decades on from a ...

Looking back at Earth's long history to reveal what it can teach our climate today. Ancient patterns show how shifts unfold ...

The lifetime of nitrous oxide is decreasing more quickly than expected, which is changing climate projections.

Temperature plays the biggest role in where plants can grow. Warmer conditions allow more plants to survive in new places. Other factors like rainfall and soil also matter, but temperature has the ...

Do you remember the meaning of the first Earth Day? How big was it? What about the time in history made it come together? I ...