Planet Earth

President Donald Trump has expressed an interest in buying Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.

A banana-killing fungus has finally reached Latin America, as scientists long feared it would.

The new rules, which the administration says will benefit businesses, tell regulators not to consider science alone when making decisions about endangered species.

The first consumer product to come out of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in 33 years could help revitalize a long-neglected community — or at least get a lot of tourists drunk.

Dismantling it will be "extremely complicated."

Volcanic records revealed the complexity of the magnetic-field reversal.

The world's largest carbon offset is losing ground — fast.

A gaping hole in a dying tectonic plate beneath the ocean along the West Coast of the United States may be wreaking havoc at Earth's surface, but not in a way most people might expect.

An International team of scientists finds evidence that Earth began recycling itself more than 3 billion years ago.

Water on Kilauea could trigger more explosive eruptions.

They just want to create order in this chaotic world.

Beneath the Arctic lie billions of barrels of oil. But as the international energy race intensifies, we wonder, how did all that oil get there in the first place?

Following the hottest June ever recorded, July 2019 may have been the single warmest month in history.

The worst day of melting was July 31, when 11 billion tons of melted ice disappeared into the ocean.

Heat that shattered records in Europe this week is on the move.

A new study shows that the ice at the bottoms of submerged glaciers could be melting 100 times faster than anyone thought.

From the 800s to the 1400s, about a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest, and all lasted longer than a decade.

The global climate is changing more now than at any point in the plast 2,000 years. The Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period were nothing like this.