In a world of increasingly complex issues, survival cannot be left to political opinion — it has to be guided by our best scientific and technological minds.

See how days at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit have changed in your lifetime and how much hotter it could get.

Three new reports say governments can either act now on climate, and reap trillions of dollars in benefits – or miss the window and put a wrecking-ball to GDPs.

“Pretty freaky”

Those who deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change often point to the fallibility of climate models, calling those who agree with such estimates "alarmists." The bulk of climate research has tended to underplay the real risks of climate change.

An eco village on the Sunshine Coast was an experiment in communal living when it first started. Thirty years later it is still thriving

First Documented Person Born On The Continent Of Antarctica

A journey from the source of the Nile in central Africa to its mouth near Cairo, charting the problems faced by the river and those who depend on it.

A population of about 800 apes living in the Sumatran mountains are genetically distinct, a new study says.

Whatever your feelings about the longest night, the winter solstice is worth pausing to savor.

A potentially fatal fungus infection found in more than two dozen snake species in Europe and the United States could be lethal to serpents across the globe, a new study finds.

The giant Pacific octopus you saw at the aquarium last month? It might not have actually been a giant Pacific octopus.

It's the monsoon season, which means Bali's iconic beach in Kuta is vomiting rubbish.

If you've caught much news recently, you'll probably have seen headlines about the looming extinction crisis set to wipe out chocolate in 40 years. It's a scary possibility, but it's also not quite as simple as that.

Australians love cooking with gas, but what if you could make your own supply, using leftover food waste? It may be time for more households to embrace home biogas – and stop paying gas bills.

The Earth hasn't always been the blue, hospitable planet it is today. On at least three occasions our planet was completely covered with ice. How did the Earth get into this state and, above all, how did it manage to get out of it?

Earth had another severe year for billion-dollar weather-related natural disasters in 2017, with 29. This is the sixth-largest number on record going back to 1990.

A remote spruce planted on a Southern Ocean island holds a defining record of humans, scientists argue.

A small city in remote Alaska is working to reduce contamination from the nearby Red Dog Mine.

Where there is light, organisms will follow.

What we might be seeing is an excursion rather than a reversal event. By Erik Klemetti.

It’s not all bottles and straws—the patch is mostly abandoned fishing gear.

The Guide to Greener Electronics is an analysis of what 17 of the world’s leading consumer electronics companies are doing to address their environmental impacts, and where Greenpeace thinks work still needs to be done.

Landmark buildings around the world went dark on Saturday in an international effort to draw attention to climate change. In New York, the Empire Building's lights were switched off. There was a similar sight in Paris, where the Eiffel Tower went dark. And in London, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus and the London Eye had their lights turned off, according to The Associated Press.

The deposit, found within Japan’s exclusive economic zone, contains more than 16 million tons of the elements needed to build high-tech products.

Inbreeding and male infertility could be impeding the recovery of one of New Zealand's threatened birds - the stitchbird, or hihi. Hihi sperm might hold the answer, and help raise funds for conservation.

As much as 25 percent of Antarctica’s annual ice melt is occurring during the winter months despite subzero temperatures averaging -48°C (56°F) during the continent’s coldest months

The English word "Earth", German "Erde", Swedish "jorden", and similar expressions in other Germanic languages come from Proto-Germanic *erþō, which meant, well, "earth". They are shown in brown

On the 20th anniversary of the graph that galvanized climate action, it is time to speak out boldly

Burning coal is a part of daily life in Poland. As a result the country has some of the most polluted air in the European Union, and 33 of its 50 dirtiest cities.

For decades, soccer and baseball were played on contaminated fields in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In 2012, several were closed. More closed in 2015. Locals are wondering when the cleanup will start.

Throughout Earth’s history, climate has varied greatly. For hundreds of millions of years, the planet had no polar ice caps. Without this ice, the sea level was 70 meters higher. At the other extreme, about 700 million years ago, Earth became almost entirely covered in ice, during an event known as “Snowball Earth.” What causes these swings in the planet’s climate? Lorraine Lisiecki investigates.

A writer comes face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle and left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss. 

It's an ozone mystery, as well as a threat to one of the planet's great environmental success stories.

Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact