A conservationist revealed how an update on Google Earth exposed the unsustainable clear-cut logging happening in California.

Credit: NASA/USGS Landsat 7; NASA Earth Observatory The Landsat 7 satellite isn’t the only craft capturing beautiful images of our planet from above. Other satellites and crew members on the ...

Before then, less complex and single-celled organisms, like sponges and cyanobacteria, populated the Earth. Fossils found during an archaeological study in Carmarthenshire, Wales, in the 1970s have ...

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Up to 12cm of snow fell in parts of the country, disrupting roads, rail and flights. Ten-week-old Bernese mountain puppy, Raven, encounters snow for the first time in a garden in Ilkley, West ...

Today’s ocean is slightly alkaline at a pH of 8.2, in part due to the chemical weathering of limestone, basalt and other rocks throughout Earth’s history. Dissolved carbon dioxide in the water ...

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A giant, impossible icicle. Starkly exposed mountain slopes. Billion-year-old rocks behind a lone iceberg. And the view from within a glacial tunnel. The main image shows ice that has formed ...

In this video I talk about why, and how we can make that a reality. No, it doesn't involve putting the Earth in a fridge. Note that rankings of emissions reductions change over time! It's been a ...

For over half-a-century, the Nasa and US Geological Survey's Landsat program has documented changes to the Earth's surface, making it the longest continuous space-based record of our planet's land ...