As people continue to huddle indoors, avoiding their usual daily commute to work and school, it is inevitable that humans’ dramatic new relationship with the world would have a major impact on the ...

A new study shows how thoughts about mortality shape travel decisions - and why where you live may influence how you cope.

Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And from our city to the planet as a whole, the COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on humans, but it has had profound effects on our planet. From the air we ...

Each year, thousands of cities around the world recognize Earth Hour by having landmarks go dark and asking residents to turn off their lights. Earth Hour, an event that encourages participation in ...

It's as if the Earth has closed its eyes, some scientists say: the coronavirus pandemic has forced astronomers in northern Chile to shut down the world's most powerful telescopes, running the risk of ...

A Cambridge-based program is tackling the growing threat of engineered pandemics, seeking to prevent bioweapon-driven outbreaks before they begin. Reading time 2 minutes Half a decade after the ...

In the early hours of Wednesday morning in Geneva, countries finalized a draft global agreement aimed at improving how the world prepares for and responds to pandemics, marking a historic step that ...

A Maine man found himself in one of the most remote places on Earth as the coronavirus pandemic hit last year. U.S. Antarctic Program weather observer Jeff DeRosa spent much of 2020 at the South Pole.

Can a global pandemic affect temperatures on the Moon? A 2024 study linked worldwide lockdowns with a drop in heat radiation reaching the Moon from Earth – but now scientists say that wasn't actually ...