For thousands of years, Earth operated within a stable, forgiving range of conditions that allowed human civilizations to flourish. That stability might soon be a thing of the past. A new scientific ...

To promote its homebuilding and homeownership efforts, Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley plans to install 40 artist-painted sculptures around East Dundee, West Dundee, Carpentersville and ...

“Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth.” So begins a report in Nature attempting to quantify Safe and Just Earth boundaries. The findings ...

Rebecca Charbonneau is a historian at the American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, and the author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain. As the electronic signals ...

From soaring coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most revered woody plants are in an awful lot of trouble. But it turns out that ...

An array of pumpjacks operating near the site of an oil and gas well in Midland, Texas, is seen in this April 2022 file photo. We need the fossil fuel industry to join us in making the right choice to ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have been highlighted as being well positioned to ensure the survival of humanity in the event that a "killer asteroid" hits the planet. According to a former White House ...