Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and Future Earth are initiatives that are driven by visions of creating a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient world. WCRP coordinates international ...

Clouds play an important role in determining the current and future temperature and global warming rate of the Earth. They simultaneously cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight and warm the planet by ...

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

All complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete in our planet’s atmosphere. Fortunately, that won’t happen for another billion years or so, according to an ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

Meltwater from the Laohugou No. 12 glacier flows though China's Qilian Mountains on Sept. 27, 2020. (CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Reuters) Eric Holthaus experiences climate change as a wound, a ...

Scientists reveal why time moves faster on Mars than on Earth, and how this affects future space communication and navigation ...