An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

The destruction of nature is a global crisis. Establishing protected areas of forest is a common policy governments use to ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of a puzzling seismic disturbance. First, there was an avalanche. Then, there was a ...

It took feats of engineering and deft piloting to map the planet’s topography, an achievement that continues to pay dividends ...

Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record ... And if this sounds familiar, that’s because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as human-caused climate change ...

Police say that it’s the biggest art fraud in world history—and it happened here ... including in prominent institutions across Canada. The Globe’s Parliamentary reporter Kristy Kirkup ...

Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of these ... although these were much rarer than areas of increase. The top ...