Planet Earth

It might be really good for coral reefs.

Foreshocks — the tiny, sometimes imperceptible tremors that precede massive earthquakes — are way more common than we thought.

Has Trump been reading old Live Science articles about nuking hurricanes? And if not, should he be?

Do it now or do it later, with much, much worse outcomes.

There's so much smoke from wildfires in the Amazon rainforest that São Paulo plunged into darkness on Monday afternoon (Aug. 19), with day turning into night.

A photographer on a NASA airplane captured a rare and spectacular shot when flying through a fire cloud, a type of thunderhead that forms above a wildfire's smoke plume.

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?