The Latest Breaking News from Earth

New research predicts that, even if solar geoengineering is successful, temperatures could continue to increase in the following few years.

After a summer of heatwaves and forest fires in the Mediterranean basin, monsoon rains that submerged one-third of Pakistan, and the latest in a series of tropical hurricanes ravaging the south-east United States, one could be forgiven for thinking that planet Earth has passed some critical climatic threshold. What do…

This wild part of Scotland, so central to my beginnings, works like a time machine on me, says Edward Docx

Nuclear fusion reactions in the sun are the source of heat and light we receive on Earth. These reactions release a massive amount of cosmic radiation — including x-rays and gamma rays — and charged particles that can be harmful for any living organisms.