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 ...

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.

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 ...

You can request such an event via the menu at the top of the page. WKU's Hardin Planetarium has full dome of 40 feet, with a 360° surround view by way of a Digitalis Epsilon digital projector. All of ...

This allowed the glacier to finish shaping the massive bodies of water. Maureen Long, a seismologist and professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Yale University, said the study contributes to ...

It would be nearly impossible to make the Earth as inhospitable to life as the planet Mars — not that we aren’t trying. And yet, despite the red planet’s toxic soil, harmful solar radiation ...

from underneath Earth’s crust created a low point that the glaciers would finish carving out and filling with water much later.