The US is saber-rattling over Greenland once again. The vast island's natural resources are back on the agenda, a year after ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Communications strategist Olga González examines why childhood lead poisoning remains one of the United States’ most ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Greenland is 836,000 square miles of largely frozen ground northeast of Canada. So why does the White House say it "should be ...

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on ...

The Danish territory holds significant stores of oil, gas and minerals. But regulations and the extreme environment have kept ...

Between 2003 and 2021, Earth saw a net boost in photosynthesis, mainly thanks to land plants thriving in warming, wetter conditions—especially in temperate and high-latitude regions. Meanwhile, ocean ...

Today is the 55th Earth Day celebrated in the United States.It’s held every year on April 22 — a date originally chosen to fit college students’ schedules. But many may not know how Earth Day began or ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. Scattered across the United States, ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The asteroid, which has been dubbed "2021 FH1," is estimated to be about 98 feet ...

Not everyone has the chance to walk on the land they’ll one day fertilize. Lorna Moore did just that in early October when she visited the property that human-composting company Earth Funeral uses ...