A global effort to map the genomes of all plants, animals, fungi and other microbial life on Earth, is entering a new phase as it moves from pilot projects to full-scale production sequencing. This ...

What do a pizza, a goblet, a candle, a basketball and a Styrofoam ball have in common? If used correctly, they can all show the Earth’s layers and plate tectonic boundaries. Last week, eighth-graders ...

Simultaneously stoic and anguished, “Earth” takes a determined, unrelenting look at what Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter calls “the wounds we are inflicting” on our planet. Like his previous ...