anthropocene

One by one, the archaeologists stumbled upon pieces of junk. Using techniques typically reserved for documenting…

Tomorrow marks the first day of fall 2019, though you’d be forgiven for not noticing in much of the country thanks…

If you go to the beach, you’re likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled…

Traditional nature writing explores the majesty of earth’s topographies—its fields and streams and mountains—those…

Unusual and abundant glassy spheres found packed within the beach sands near the Japanese city of Hiroshima are…

This was one heck of a week in the tech and science world. Ridesharing giant Uber finally launched its long-awaited…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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…