Earth’s magnetic field, the invisible barrier that deflects solar radiation and makes surface life possible, is not permanent ...

What happens at the end of our world? Scientists have found an Earth-like planet orbiting a star 4,000 light years away from the solar system that may reveal our planet’s ultimate fate. The rocky ...

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 ...

To those who study existential risk, the list of threats is lengthening. If nuclear war doesn't end us, a designer virus or AI might. The good news? No giant asteroids will strike this millennium. A ...

Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere, the very thing that allows complex life to exist, may not last forever. Coupled biogeochemistry and climate simulations estimate that the planet’s breathable air could ...

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, ...

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 following is an excerpt from The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming by Eric Holthaus. Disclaimer: When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on ...

Scientists are beginning to read Earth in a different way, not from orbit, but from the surface of the moon. A recent study,“Spherical Harmonic Fingerprints Characterize Moon-Based Disk-Integrated ...