The Amazon holds at least a third of the world’s remaining tropical forests. Some sources put it at more like half. Its rains ...

Despite what photos suggest, Earth is not perfectly round. Our home planet is actually a lumpy “oblate spheroid” that bulges ...

A woman living in California discovers her mother may have been a merciless enforcer of the Islamic revolution, in an intriguing novel of inheritance and identity ...

Through this photograph, Pettit showed how a fisheye lens can create an unusual view of Earth's auroras.

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Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. Reuters reveals the rise of ‘heat storms.’ They now swarm the globe, ...

A new study offers an explanation for unusual chemical signatures found in some volcanic rocks.

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, today announced the successful launch of Pelican-12, an ...

James Webb reveals how powerful winds and extreme temperature differences create an unusual atmospheric bulge on the giant ...

A lot of climate change is beyond the control of individuals alone, but how you eat can matter more than you may think.

Earth and Mars grew up as neighbors around the young Sun, but they may not have been built the same way. Most of Earth’s mass ...

Discover 15 facts about strange planet Earth, from underwater waterfalls and glowing seas to moving rocks and unusual ...