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1 day ago · Earth’s magnetic field yanks at this solid ball of hot metal, making it spin. At the same time, the gravity and flow of the fluid outer core and mantle drag at the core. Over many decades, the ...
5 days ago · Today’s cities’ most monumental efforts won’t (just) be architectural. As they house and feed, build and grow, create and innovate, cities must keep Earth in the balance.
3 days ago · Biodiversity loss, the reduction in an area’s biodiversity (the number of genes, species, individual organisms, or ecosystems) expressed by species loss, population declines and reductions in the genetic diversity within a species, and the collapse of biological communities.
1 day ago · Earth, third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass. Its single most outstanding feature is that its near-surface environments are the only places in the universe known to harbor life. Learn more about development and composition of Earth in this article.
1 day ago · Balancing the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability is difficult. This is because there is often disagreement about the relative importance of each. To resolve this, there is a need to integrate, balance, and reconcile the dimensions.
5 days ago · United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, conference held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 3–14, 1992), to reconcile worldwide economic development with protection of the environment. It was the largest gathering of world leaders in history, with 117 heads of state attending.
1 day ago · Earth's energy balance accounts the amount of energy it receives from the sun, solar radiation, and the amount of thermal radiation that Earth emits back out to space. Influenced by numerous ...
