From Conservation to Population, a New Look at Planet Earth
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Can nine billion humans survive and try to improve their lives without depleting the planet?
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Within the Global Monitoring for Environment an
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By Steve Connor  The first detailed survey of the microbial "zoo" living on the human body has found far more species than expected - and a significant proportion are new to science.
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An ambitious project to catalog life in the ocean shows that so far we've just scratched the surface. By Stephen Leahy.
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The number of large mammals has fallen sharply across most of the planet as a result of human activity, a study says.
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A new book argues that nature is too complex and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored to be modeled using computer programs.
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More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside our solar system may harbor Earth-like planets covered in deep global oceans that offer abundant potential for life, according to a new study by scientists associated with NASA's Astrobiology Institute.
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It is becoming clear that the human genome responds to changes in diet, even though it takes many generations to do so.
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Scientists say humans have altered the earth right into a new geological age. Here's you're chance to help name our new era.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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A new look at climate conditions 55 million years ago shows that the Earth is more sensitive to small changes than previously believed.
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About one third of amphibians are under threat of extinction in a new sign of the world&#39;s deteriorating environment, according to researchers who carried out a global census.
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By Andrews, Richard N L  In 2005, the United Nations-commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that over the past 50 years, rapid and extensive change in human ecosystems has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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The hunt for extraterrestrial life has a new tool: a system of "fingerprints" scientists will use to compare alien worlds with Earth as it has appeared over the eons.
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Scientists are planning to take the pulse of the planet -- and more -- in an effort to improve weather forecasts, predict energy needs months in advance, anticipate disease outbreaks and even tell fishermen where the catch will be abundant.
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The starkly uneven pace of population growth between most developing and industrialized nations represents the world&#39;s major demographic fault line. The Population Reference Bureau&#39;s 2004 World Population Data Sheet demonstrates that nearly 99 percent ...
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A report will describe a growing body of evidence that warming is likely to cause a profound transformation of the planet.