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.

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the world’s largest animal, the Antarctic blue whale, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300.

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

Today’s ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world’s biodiversity. 

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. 

In an unusual sight, four storms churned simultaneously in the Western Pacific Ocean in November 2024. 

Researchers say the technology could one day be applied to other cancers.