The Earth is slowly losing its shine. Its reflectivity – or albedo – is declining, mostly due to vanishing ice cover and fewer clouds. So few, in fact, that 2023 stood out as the year with the lowest ...

With Airbnb invasions and Instagram mobs, author Geoff Dyer charts how paradise can quickly feel overcrowded – and explains ...

Danish adventurer Thor Pedersen set himself the task of visiting every country in the world in one unbroken journey without using aeroplanes ...

From vast freshwater lakes to saltwater seas, this quiz explores the features, facts, and forces that shape Earth’s inland waters. Test your knowledge of the planet’s most essential aquatic ...

Groundbreaking mapping highlights where conservation efforts are urgently needed A pioneering study led by the University of St Andrews and Cornell University has, for the first time, mapped bird ...

These fluctuations, he suggests, could contribute to making rock more brittle and prone to fracturing, while changes in rainfall and snowmelt can affect the pressure on tectonic plate boundaries.

The end is never really the end. Lizzie Wade’s Apocalypse reveals how humanity has long turned catastrophe into ...