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.

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.