The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

Letter: Writer says Trump's EPA repeal of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding undermines climate protections and future generations.

The state legislature is back with more ill-considered climate policies, including a 'superfund' that would indirectly impose ...

In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...

As I begin my first year as president of the African-American Community Fund, a component fund of The Dayton Foundation, I am filled with deep excitement and a clear sense of purpose to carry forward ...

A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.

Earth’s green center has been drifting steadily for decades, reflecting a change in where vegetation grows most intensely.

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.