Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Every fraction of a degree of warming edges Earth towards triggering all kinds of climate tipping points, and the report lays ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. The ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the ...

The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two decades' worth of satellite data has revealed. Measurements from NASA's twin GRACE satellites and GRACE follow-on missions have shown that ...

The Earth's crust is doing something pretty intense—it’s slowly breaking apart! Scientists say tectonic plates, those massive puzzle pieces that make up our planet’s surface, are shifting and cracking ...

Climate change is driving extreme wildfire events worldwide, finds a new global report revealing a stark picture of increased ...

New research examining over 20 years of data captured by NASA’s twin climate satellites, GRACE and GRACE-FO, has revealed an “unprecedented” level of water loss among the planet’s continents, creating ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Plate tectonics may have played a larger role in the evolution of life on Earth than we ...

NISAR will be able to monitor "changes as small as a centimeter in any weather, and in both darkness and light." The U.S. and India just sent a powerful new set of radar eyes into the sky. The NISAR ...