Land and environmental defenders—Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives opposing the destructive exploitation of natural resources. Global Witness ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters will also contaminate observations by four space telescopes, including Hubble ...

A new NASA study has uncovered an unexpected and unsettling shift: Earth has grown a full shade darker since 2001. This means ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

If warming continues at this pace, coastal and island communities near the Indian, Pacific, and Western Atlantic oceans will ...

Methane, the main component of natural gas, is a climate pollutant that is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

Climate change is making plastic pollution more mobile, toxic, and widespread, accelerating risks for wildlife, ecosystems, ...

Each second of filmmaker Daniel Raven-Ellison's short film represents one percent of the Earth's surface. Only eight seconds show intact forest. A wetland in the U.K., seen from above. The short film ...

New research has revealed for the first time the full extent of how Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) is increasing carbon released by plants and animals across continents – without any increase in the ...

Earth’s mirror is dimming over two of its largest ocean basins, and that lost shine is turning into heat. A new study finds that marine cloud reflectivity, caused by cleaner air, has dropped by ...