LONDON—Greenhouse gases could tip the Earth—or at least a planet like Earth, orbiting a star very like the Sun—into a runaway greenhouse effect, according to…

Planet Earth's oceans and lands will be buried by increasing layers of plastic waste by the mid-century due to human activity, according to research led…

Geologists are convinced that humans have left a mark upon the planet that will detectable millions of years from now. Long after human civilisation has…

There's no question about it. A new epoch—the Anthropocene—has begun. So says an international group of geoscientists, in a paper published Friday in the journal…

What do the Pyrenean ibex, St. Helena olive, Baiji dolphin, Liverpool pigeon, Eastern cougar, West African black rhinoceros, Formosan clouded leopard, Chinese Paddlefish, the Golden…

We are living in a new time. A new world has emerged. Like many things that are new on such a scale it is at…

Periodically, in the vast spans of time that have preceded us, our planet’s living beings have been purged by planetary catastrophes so extreme they make…

I’ve said it before and will say it again. We all need to work together to call people out when they toss around the term…

– The number of inmates in solitary confinement in California’s prisons should be sharply reduced following settlement of a suit brought by prisoners. California leads…

This week's show included a climate-change update from Guy and an extensive conversation with social critics Cory Morningstar and Forrest Palmer. We also responded to…

Last week's piece drew responses that throw into relief how much the language we use depends on our most basic assumptions about how the world works. If left…

Anyone accustomed to Openhand knows that our approach is to fearlessly embrace the truth, even if that makes us unpopular. Why? Because only the truth can truly…