Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study on functional biosphere integrity, or the plant kingdom’s ability to co-regulate the state of the ecosystem, found ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

A recent study conducted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and the BOKU University in Vienna has revealed alarming new insights into the health of Earth’s biosphere. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biosphere 2 is a research facility located near Tucson, Ariz. Katja Schulz/Flickr, CC BY From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from ...

Researchers who study Earth's biosphere tend to operate from one of three scientific cultures, each with distinct ways of conducting science, and which have been operating mostly independently from ...

Deep beneath the ocean's surface lies Earth's largest carbon reservoir: marine sediments that have accumulated organic matter over millions of years. Long assumed to be permanently "locked away," this ...

Learn about UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves and why you should visit them.

Sixty-six million years ago a 10-kilometer-wide space rock fell out of the sky over what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. When it hit Earth, it blew a Maryland-sized hole in the ...

While many of us across the United States are still ordered to stay at home to quarantine, the documentary Spaceship Earth covers a voluntary quarantine of eight people in 1991. These eight ...

(THE CONVERSATION) From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just ...