A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Katherine Bourzac is a science journalist based in San Francisco. Her coverage of microbiology, physics, chemistry and the environment has appeared in Nature, Scientific American and MIT ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

Peter Brannen is a science journalist based in Cambridge, MA. His latest book is The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...