There was this moment last year when I was sitting in the quietest place in the U.S. and a plane flew overhead,…

For most of his life, British author and BBC radio producer Tim Dee has been a birdwatcher. But it’s not finches and…

Antarctica is huge, stretching nearly 3,500 miles at its widest extent. Despite its enormous size, however, the frozen…

In 100 million years, human civilization will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a…

It seems humanity isn’t just content to screw up the surface of the planet. We’re gonna do the deep ocean, too.

As photos of charred forest remains emerge from California’s latest round of explosive wildfires, it’s becoming clear…

For the first time, scientists have mapped how much oceanic wilderness remains. Only 13.2 percent of the oceans are…

It’s no secret that modern humans, with our fuel-burning cars, massive ranching and agriculture practices, and penchant…

Fifty million years after humanity’s extinction, the world has once more grown wild. In the forests of North America,…

It’s hard to talk to ecologists these days without drowning in doom. But a new review paper from members of the…

Annihilation isn’t a perfect movie. But it deserves credit for striving to tackle a subject few mainstream films ever…

A team of scientists have a new contender for determining the precise date that we entered the so-called Anthropocene:…

Think of the heaviest living organism on Earth, and an image of a blue whale might come to mind. In fact, the honor…

More than 15,000 scientists from 184 nations have penned an open letter to humanity, politely asking their fellow…

It’s standard news to hear about the rapid decline of wildlife these days: As humanity’s environmental impact has…

A new NASA-sponsored study shows that global methane emissions produced by livestock are 11 percent higher than…

As we plunge deeper into the 21st century and the digital worlds we’ve built, a group of scientists is weighing a…

Sea snakes are a striking sight on the sun-dappled Pacific and Indian Ocean coral reefs they call home. They swim with…

It should be obvious to everyone at this point that humans are having an enormous impact on the planet. But how much,…

The sixth mass extinction—the one that seven billion humans are doing their darnedest to trigger at this very moment—is…