Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations.

An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since.

When University of Miami geologist Robert Ginsberg passed away in 2017, colleagues noticed something intriguing while sorting his papers: a collection of black-and-white aerial photographs of parts of the Bahamas.

Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate – it also noticeably improves the health of humans who live in the corresponding regions.

Earth saw another unusually warm month, with October 2024 ranking as the second-warmest October in NOAA’s 175-year global climate record.

As Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet’s deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead.

Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms, which are essential to the ocean's carbon cycle. 

A metal-organic framework, or MOF, is capable of capturing CO2 at extreme temperatures.

In 1917, a German scientist climbed a mountainside in Sweden every day for five years to collect vegetation data. 

Earth’s ocean is rising, disrupting livelihoods and infrastructure in coastal communities around the world.