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 open access book explores how data from the latest ground-based, airborne, and space-based remote sensing observations ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 has integrated its Gemini AI into the Earth app. Because of this integration, the app can now predict natural disasters and who will be affected by them the most. Google has announced a big ...

Disasters are big business. Decades ago, meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started tracking the number of natural disasters in the US – the ones that incurred at ...