Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Earth system models have been overestimating natural nitrogen fixation by about 50%, overstating the strength of Earth’s future carbon sink.

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich developed iLand, a state-of-the-art computer model that can predict how forests will look a century from now, the institution reported via Phys.org.

Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

Colombia has several areas of high biological diversity in the Andean ecosystems, with a wide variety of endemic species, found nowhere else on Earth, as well as the Amazon rainforests and unique ...

Warning! Warning! Spoilers for Star Trek #22 ahead! IDW's expansive, ambitious Star Trek ongoing series has offered readers a glimpse of what it describes as the "eventual reality" of Earth. While the ...