Paleontologist Riley Black traces the cooperation among plants, animals, and ecosystems in “When the Earth Was Green.” ...

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...

To tease out the drivers of Earth's green-up, they used machine learning and ecological simulations to explore how different environmental and human factors might have affected vegetation growth.

The Earth is absorbing more sunlight and trapping more heat than it releases into space, causing our planet to warm up at an ...

A strange phenomenon has been found: all of the oceans on Earth will turn green in real time. Earth’s Oceans Were Green a ...

But for billions of years before that, our planet’s oceans were not blue at all. Instead, they were a striking shade of green, shaped by ancient microbial life and the chemical composition of early ...

A little-known volcano in the remote Kuril Islands, Zavaritzki, links an explosion in 1831 with drastic climate changes.

As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.

To tease out the drivers of Earth’s green-up, they used machine learning and ecological simulations to explore how different environmental and human factors might have affected vegetation growth.