Recent reductions in per-device carbon footprints appear to be insufficient to close the sustainability gap. Sustainability is undeniably a grand challenge. As the world population and the average ...

Ukraine is opening its resource reserves to the West, proposing joint extraction of titanium, uranium, and lithium with the ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

China, with whom Trump has threatened a trade war, is the world's largest producer of rare earths and many other critical ...

Rising global temperatures may render extensive regions of the planet too hot for human survival over the coming decades.

A new study reveals that even a slight rise in global temperatures could make vast areas of the planet too hot for human ...

New assessment warns area the size of the USA will become too hot during extreme heat events for even healthy young humans to maintain a safe body temperature if we hit 2 degrees Celsuis above ...

An international group of scientists, led by King's College London,has revealed how continued global warming will lead to more parts of the planet ...