Earth

The Brazilian torrent frog has the most sophisticated visual communications system yet documented for a frog species.

There are stretches of thousands of miles of barren interstate in the U.S.

Mining coal in the Powder River Basin is no longer a sure bet

We continue our journey through the USGS database full of delicious Mount Saint Helens photos

Melting ice and shifting rain patterns are causing the north and south poles to drift

An excerpt from Mason Inman’s The Oracle of Oil

Perhaps it’s time to consider other ways of combating climate change that prioritize action

Three decades after Chernobyl, the U.S. needs to tackle its own ominous nuclear safety problem

The accident was just one factor that makes it a hard sell to fight climate change

We could use laser light to mask our transits across the sun and thus hide Earth from any intelligent aliens looking for planets to invade

A new model suggests ice loss could raise sea levels further, faster

The man who helped uncover climate change looks back on decades of polar research