Anthropocene

From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system, says Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

More huge cities are facing Day Zero—the date water taps go dry—just as Cape Town, South Africa, did

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently putting this question to the test

Federal scientists want to study the benefits and risks of using ocean ecosystems to absorb more climate pollution from the sky

Winter is warming faster than any other season, leading to changes such as ice storms and rain in regions that were once reliably below freezing—a situation that one expert dubs “warming winter syndrome”

The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Researchers found that if melting glaciers shut down the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation pattern, the global climate could see major changes within just 100 years

A gloom and doom approach does not always spur climate action, it turns out. A new study tells you when it works and when it doesn’t

NASA’s PACE mission aims to increase our understanding of Earth’s carbon cycle, pollution particles and ocean plankton

Wetlands with a small amount of salinity can produce more methane gas than those filled with freshwater or lots of seawater, new research suggests

Rising temperatures are melting an area of the Swiss Alps where scientists have been working to collect centuries-old ice cores that contain evidence of past environmental conditions

The ancestral Maya lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from them