What happens at the end of our world? Scientists have found an Earth-like planet orbiting a star 4,000 light years away from the solar system that may reveal our planet’s ultimate fate. The rocky ...

How can we reverse the effects of climate change in under 30 years? Read this solutions-focused book from Eric Holthaus with us this October. The Future Earth brings together a range of topics, ...

The global change program Future Earth is an international alliance of organizations and agencies that was launched by the UN in June 2012. The Future Earth 2025 Vision identified eight global ...

Émile Torres spends a lot of their time thinking about the end of the world as we know it — and how to avoid it. To some, this kind of theorizing and strategizing might seem like a grand exercise in ...

The rocky planet, roughly twice Earth's size, has offered astronomers a glimpse of one of Earth’s possible futures — if it doesn’t get engulfed by our expanding sun. When you purchase through links on ...

According to a new study by NASA, Earth is running out of oxygen, and they even know when it will occur. The study was led by Kazumi Ozaki from Toho University and Christopher Reinhard from Georgia ...

The following is an excerpt from The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming by Eric Holthaus. Disclaimer: When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on ...

The future of the planet may not be the most comfortable of subjects to think about — from the threat of climate change to worry about world wars — but for astronomers, it's something to consider when ...

Earth’s landscape has always been in flux. But most large-scale changes take far longer to manifest than we’ll ever witness in our lifetimes. Hundreds of millions of years had to pass for the ...

So far, NASA has launched just one of the 15 missions recommended in the 2007 Earth science decadal survey: the Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, mission. The $915 million mission launched Jan.