Microscopic life thrives kilometers beneath Earth's surface, surviving on chemical reactions in rock and water. These deep-Earth microbes, once though ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

Ancient trees may have played a key role in regulating Earth's climate during the last ice age—by 'breathing' less ...

Iron rusts. On Earth, this common chemical reaction often signals the presence of something far more interesting than just ...

Earth's oceans are a vital part of our planet's ecosystem, so what would happen if they suddenly vanished?

In the midst of climate change, awareness of humanity’s negative impact on the planet has grown, making the idea of moving to ...

Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain, home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and proboscis monkeys, has officially joined UNESCO’s ...

Now, a new paper from researchers led by Daniel Klocke of the Max Planck Institute in Germany describes what some in the ...

“The last few years have seen vital signs breaking their records by extraordinary margins, like surface temperature, ocean heat content, sea ice loss, and fire-related tree cover loss,” Johan ...

With the biosphere, you are dealing with complex systems that can change in abrupt and unforeseen ways. This is the world ...

Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky—climate modeling even more so. But their slowly increasing ability to predict what ...

A desert biome habitat at the University of Arizona now houses an endangered fish species known as the Sonoyta pupfish. The habitat is located in the university’s Biosphere 2, an earth and ...