Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Is it really possible to store large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in building materials like concrete and plastic? If so, ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the planet by the end of the century, a new study has ...

Discover the connection between volcanic events and the rise of Earth's oxygen levels that enabled complex life to thrive.

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. Researchers ...

A new study finds that as global warming continues it may reduce the available space for satellites in low Earth orbit by ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...