There's no controlling Mother Nature, and her wrath can, at times, be staggering. Last year, natural disasters—from droughts ...

Few scientists have spoken as bluntly about humanity’s future as physicist Stephen Hawking. One of his most striking warnings concerned the long-term fate of Earth itself. Stephen Hawking was known ...

The number of objects in Earth's orbit is growing rapidly, driven by the deployment of more and more satellites, along with mega-constellations that pair large numbers of them. While satellites expand ...

A new international study led by Lund University examines what happened to population levels after the Kikai-Akahoya volcanic eruption in prehistoric Japan. The results paint a more complex picture ...

A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable.

Climate disasters have become increasingly commonplace and increasingly destructive. The worst year was 2017 where a combination of devastating hurricane and wildfires resulted in $300 billion in ...

Now decades after the fabled Space Race of the 1950 and '60s, humanity's presence in space has dramatically increased. While it is remarkable that humans have so much floating around in Earth's orbit, ...

The European Union (EU), the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) today launched a four-year programme to strengthen infrastructure resilience, ...

A new study found that climate change has driven a surge of “societally disastrous” wildfires over the last four decades, with 43% of the most costly events occurring in the last 10 years. Reading ...

Google’s free AI tool lets users conjure fake war zones and nuclear sites atop real satellite coordinates in seconds Al is a long time tech writer with a penchant for all things nerdy. While he writes ...