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Humanity Set to Bust Our Yearly Ecological Budget on Aug. 1

Humanity Set to Bust Our Yearly Ecological Budget on Aug. 1

Earth Overshoot Day—a marker of when the world’s 7.6 billion people will “use more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year”—will fall on Aug. 1, the earliest date yet since we first went into ecological debt in the 1970s. “In other words, humanity is currently using nature 1.7 times faster than […]

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    Where on Earth Are We Going to Put the Next Billion People?

    Where on Earth Are We Going to Put the Next Billion People?

    By 2030, 1.1 billion more people are expected to be living on Earth—bringing the total to around 8.5 billion. James Cridland / Flickr In a new report published in the journal, Nature, authors Richard T. T. Forman, a Harvard University research professor, and Jianguo Wu, a distinguished professor of sustainability science at Arizona State University, […]

    New Twist on Popular Theory for the Origin of Life on Earth

    New Twist on Popular Theory for the Origin of Life on Earth

    There are multiple theories around the origin of life on Earth, but the most commonly accepted one is the “RNA World” theory, which posits that ribonucleic acid (RNA) was the precursor to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)—the basic building block today of all living organisms and many viruses. But scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in […]

    NASA: Watch One Year on Earth From 1 Million Miles Away

    NASA: Watch One Year on Earth From 1 Million Miles Away

    Ever wondered what a year on Earth looks like from outer space? Well, thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), you don’t have to wonder anymore. EPIC’s photo of Earth at 10:39 on July 16 as the DSCOVR satellite was over Sudan.Photo credit: DSCOVR:EPIC NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard the Deep […]

    Neil Young Teams Up With TIDAL to Bring ‘Earth Train’ to NYC Subway

    Neil Young Teams Up With TIDAL to Bring ‘Earth Train’ to NYC Subway

    Neil Young and TIDAL have partnered to give New York City subway riders a unique experience. From July 15 – 31, the “S” shuttle train will have an eco-centric installation called the Earth Train. The train is wrapped in various Earth images—trees, water, clouds, etc.—and filled with facts that Young wants to share with riders. […]

    NASA Catches Moon ‘Photobombing’ Earth for Second Time in One Year

    NASA Catches Moon ‘Photobombing’ Earth for Second Time in One Year

    A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellite captured the moon moving past the sunlit side of the Earth for the second time in a year. Photo credit: NASA The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured the images while orbiting 1 million miles away from Earth. Sitting between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR’s primary […]

    17 Spectacular Images of Earth From Outer Space

    17 Spectacular Images of Earth From Outer Space

    Wildfires, the lowest average extent of Arctic ice, remote villages in the Sahara desert and other striking images were captured by satellites to provide a space-eye view of the Earth during June 2016, compiled by The Guardian. As seen in the image below stagnant lakes stretch across the upper reaches of the Volga river delta […]