Earth Science Has a Whiteness Problem Barely 10 percent of doctoral degrees in the geosciences go to recipients of color. The lack of diversity limits the quality of research, many scientists say.

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live.It is why life takes "such ...

Our brains can spot real biodiversity using sight and sound alone, according to scientists studying how humans perceive nature.

This new simulation acts like a global weather forecast for all species on Earth, calculating how many species of animal live on land, and how quickly new species evolve. The scientists used their ...

Earth’s marine species, especially those at the tropics, were in trouble again about 419 million to 365 million years ago. This series of mass extinctions during the Devonian period eventually ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

The first Native American woman in space, Nicole Mann, said she was overwhelmed by the beauty of Earth on her five-month mission. Mann went into orbit with SpaceX on Oct. 5.

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

They say the ancient Europe that inspired Middle Earth was filled with more racial diversity than is commonly understood due to overseas trading, conquest and migration. Science backs them up.

Gaylord Nelson, the late U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin, is considered the founder of Earth Day, which started in 1970.

Earth Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth's ice formations In the new photographic collection Our Frozen Planet, Michael Hambrey and Jürg Alean set out to celebrate the world's ice ...