LIVING PLANET

Today is Earth Day, and for the second year in a row, a multitude of events will take place in a digital setting due to COVID-19. Last year, the pandemic forced worldwide shutdowns and slowdowns in social and economic activities, prompting…Read More

This article was guest written by Jean Deruiter. According to a 2018 study, the tourism industry contributes around 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. And a big part of those came from aviation (40%) and transportation (30%). No wonder there is…Read More

This article was guest written by Jane Marsh. Of all of the resources on Earth, water is one of the most valuable. It makes up 70% of the planet, and only 3% of that is fresh water that humans can…Read More

While most of us know that the list of endangered animals is growing (a staggering 14% increase from 2007 to 2019), many of the photographs or animals that we see, from tigers to snow leopards, are carnivores. However, a recent…Read More

A decade ago, climate change was a somewhat abstract notion, but today it’s a reality for much of the West. For the past three weeks, California, Oregon, and Washington fires have burned insanely hot, destroyed millions of acres of land,…Read More

Robots in the ocean. Are we really surprised? I mean, some of the things that robots can do nowadays are incredible. And as the relationship between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and climate change technologies is explored, robots’ roles in traveling…Read More

The Global Footprint Network determines an important date each year, but what exactly is Earth Overshoot Day? Based on 15,000 data points collected annually from each country by the United Nations, “Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand…Read More

Photo Credit: The cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev installing an antenna on the International Space Station in 2018 to track animal movements on Earth. Credit…A. Gerst/ESA/NASA (New York Times). The International Space Station has for the past 20 years…Read More

Last year, history was being made while answering questions we didn’t think to ask. We’re used to Google having all the answers, but it’s easier to forget just how difficult some of these questions are. For instance, this question took…Read More

Header Image: UAF/Martin Truffer via NASA; Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers in April 2019 A joint space-Earth mission to x-ray the planet’s poles over a decade. A team of scientists and pilots from multiple countries living in the extreme cold of the…Read More