The maiden Earth Day celebration took place on April 22, 1970. It was organised by Gaylord Nelson, who was inspired by the ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.

Study warns that climate change is rapidly shrinking mountain habitats, threatening two-thirds of butterfly species with extinction by 2070.

By Hiroshi Nakanishi, Kyoto University Professor Ever since Donald Trump returned to the U.S. presidency, the world has never ...

The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

The Earth is in distress. The effects of climate change are becoming undeniable—wildfires rage, floods submerge entire cities ...

Several Catholic ecological experts and organizations agree that good work is being done to address climate issues. But, they ...

These risks and the loss of freshwater supplies are some of the reasons the United Nations declared 2025 the International ...