Earth keeps getting warmer because more energy from sunlight stays trapped in the climate system. Scientists refer to this as ...

Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...

Earth’s landmasses are holding onto a lot less water than they used to — and this loss is not just due to melting ice sheets. Terrestrial water storage, which includes water in underground aquifers, ...

Earth is often described as a circle or an oval, but it is neither. As the planet spins more than 1,000 miles per hour at the ...

Climate change is not just a future problem; it’s a present crisis that continues to intensify with each passing day. The harsh reality is that the planet is getting warmer, and the effects are ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast ...

Host Thelisha Eaddy leads a panel discussion on how rising seas are reshaping on the coast. South Carolina’s coast faces growing threats from flooding and sea level rise, threatening billions of ...

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...