Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the ...

Earth system models have been overestimating natural nitrogen fixation by about 50%, overstating the strength of Earth’s future carbon sink.

The East African Rift stretches more than 3,000 kilometers, slicing from Ethiopia’s Red Sea coast through Kenya and down to ...

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 ...

About 1800 light years away, a planet the size of Neptune is orbiting perilously close to its baleful, bloated red star — and it could be carrying some clues about Earth’s eventual fate. The planet — ...

The project collects troves of data from the best climate models around the world – and the newest update to it is now underway.

In a new study published in Nature Sustainability an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigates how global biophysical boundaries need to be ...

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, ...

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 ...

Gravity and motion make time pass faster on Mars than Earth, reshaping navigation, communication, and future crewed missions.