Anthropocene

The far side of the moon offers grounds for compromise between advocates and opponents of lunar development

In 1974 we beamed a radio transmission into space that changed the way we think about our place in the cosmos

An ambitious U.S. government program is working to detect and track millions of tiny space junk pieces—down to the size of a sand grain—throughout low-Earth orbit and beyond

New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction

From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system, says Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

More huge cities are facing Day Zero—the date water taps go dry—just as Cape Town, South Africa, did

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently putting this question to the test

Federal scientists want to study the benefits and risks of using ocean ecosystems to absorb more climate pollution from the sky

Winter is warming faster than any other season, leading to changes such as ice storms and rain in regions that were once reliably below freezing—a situation that one expert dubs “warming winter syndrome”

The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Researchers found that if melting glaciers shut down the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation pattern, the global climate could see major changes within just 100 years

A gloom and doom approach does not always spur climate action, it turns out. A new study tells you when it works and when it doesn’t