In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Whom Greenlanders choose to do business with — economically, politically and socially — will tell us a lot about the coming ...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed the melting underside of an Antarctic ice shelf, Earth.com reported. An ...

This false-color satellite photo from 2014 shows the immense heat emanating from lava lakes at the summits of a pair of ...

There’s something about viewing Earth from space — the shift in perspective has for ... in its entirety. Today, the bird’s-eye view of an image from space isn’t unfamiliar; whether navigating to a new ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago.

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

A recent study revealed that the Northern Hemisphere has 2,466 kilometers of newly exposed coastline, with 66% of that in ...

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...