The Latest Breaking News from Earth

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did.

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age witnessed by complex life: the Late Palaeozoic ice age. At its peak, huge continental ice sheets spread across much of the globe and the sea level fell by more than 100…

Formally adventurous for its time, this poem arrives at its Romantic epiphany by a down to earth route

The expanding of the polar vortex – an area of cold air around the Arctic – southwards is causing cold spells in the US.

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state."

The Earth is dying and the only hope is a distant planet in a game that is a playable blend of Alien and The Thing

A team from the University of St Andrews looked at the role CO2 played in climate conditions.

An astronomer describes how the moon's surface temperature changes.

Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people