The impact of widespread deforestation includes increased greenhouse gas emissions, drought and soil erosion, and affects human and nonhuman life on the planet.

Escalating use of dwindling resources.

Experience life's extraordinary journeys. Our Planet II returns June 14, only on Netflix.From the Emmy® Award-winning team behind Planet Earth and Our Planet...

Last year was the hottest on record. Around the world, we are witnessing more extreme events—from massive forest fires to floods to "hot tub'" ocean temperatures—with devastating consequences for human life and our planet's biodiversity.

A new book on the perils of human exceptionalism

We need to rethink the American love affair with the automobile and redesign cities to reduce car pollution

Discover important facts about what climate change is, what's causing it, and what we can do to stop it.

(WHTM) – When you look into the night sky, you'll see planes flying by, stars twinkling, and sometimes you'll see planets. But how many planets are in our solar system and what's the difference in all of them? Our solar system is home to eight planets: The planets all rotate the sun but at different […]

Neptune is one of two "ice giants" in the solar system.

Since 1968, the MIT-WHOI Joint Program has provided research and educational opportunities for PhD students seeking to explore the marine world.

The second one is a real lightweight, at only a quarter of Earth's mass.

As the hottest summer ever comes to a close, we're using a slew of terms to describe the phenomenon that is causing all of the suffering.

In this episode of "Protecting the Planet," CBS News senior environmental correspondent Ben Tracy explores our planet's relationship with water.

Astronomers have found an unusually large planet orbiting a small star, located about 280 light-years from Earth. The unexpected size of the newly discovered world, called TOI 5205b, has caused researchers to call it a "forbidden planet."

Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets. Which planet is biggest? Which planet is smallest?

A Democratic congresswoman claimed Monday that the Supreme Court's decision on the EPA's statutory powers in June posed an "existential threat" to the planet.

Super-Earth planets are common in other solar systems but these massive planets would bring about the end of civilization.

Plants, like animals and people, seek refuge from climate change. And when they move, they take entire ecosystems with them. To understand why and how plants have trekked across landscapes throughout time, researchers at the forefront of conservation are calling for a new framework. The key to protecting biodiversity in the future may be through understanding the past.

Astronomers found a new type of planet, the super-Earth, which seem to be bigger and better than Earth itself

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh traded the ocean for New York State's Hudson River, declaring at the end of his epic 517 kilometre journey downriver on Wednesday that "we can never become complacent when it comes to protecting the environment".