Earth

Video highlights just how critical the oft-overlooked creatures are to the survival of our planet.
"We were astonished, simply because this is such an astronomical number."
Environmentalists say drilling for oil in the Arctic while pledging to save it is "deeply hypocritical."
A new digital map of Earth's seafloor reveals that the ocean is more complex than we thought.
Buried beneath the rocks, dirt, buildings and roads of the city of Decorah, Iowa, lies a 470 million-year-old meteorite crater. Unlike the craters on the pockmarked surfaces of the moon and Mars, this crater can't be seen by looking down at Earth's surface, at least not by the human eye.