The seventh edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors ...

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

In Salli Mandel’s 550-square-foot Washington, D.C., apartment, she was given the challenge of creating zones to live, eat, and work — all within a single (and small!) open space. But she didn’t let ...

China is attempting one of the most ambitious climate and land restoration projects on Earth, turning a swath of its arid north into a living barrier of trees to hold back encroaching sand. The ...

Blood samples from warm vs. cold Greenland bears reveal genetic patterns that could predict how polar bears respond to ...

A demographic transformation in Africa has the potential to alter the world order Last November, the global population reached a significant milestone of 8 billion. More recently, in April, India ...

Ubiquitous rooftop heaters may be on their way out as government pushes new technologies that offer cheaper, more efficient ...

GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan says people around the world are struggling with the rising cost of living, but he adds that "people ...